( April 28, 2026, 2:10 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge granted motions filed by higher education associations and a group of private colleges seeking preliminary injunctive relief, extending an earlier injunction barring enforcement of the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) admissions data reporting requirement in an Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenge brought by 17 states, after finding that the intervenors raised substantially identical claims that the agency action was arbitrary and capricious, exceeded statutory authority and was adopted without observance of required procedures....