News You Might Have Missed: 8/29/25

A collection of news and updates relating to admissions and testing over the last week.

Is every high school student getting higher grades than they used to? Photo by Sam Balye on Unsplash

Federal Government Will Not Fight Lawsuit Against Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Earlier this summer, Students for Fair Admissions and the State of Tennessee joined together to sue the Federal Government over the Hispanic-Serving Institution program. SFFA (the people behind the Harvard lawsuit that overturned any use of race in admissions) and Tennessee alleged this program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution because it gives benefits to colleges with large Hispanic populations. Earlier this week, the Justice Department issued a one-page memo saying it will not defend the program against the lawsuit. Consider the lawsuit mostly successful at this point.

Except, of course, that many schools which receive considerable funding as Hispanic-Serving Institutions have already said they will fight back. No court has even made any judgement y…