Turning Point USA’s expansion into high schools is creating friction for administrators, teachers and parents, with reports of discord in several states as conservative student organizing moves into secondary education. School and district leaders are weighing policies on political clubs, faculty involvement and safeguarding classroom civility. At the same time, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s demand for seven years of student application race data, after Democratic attorneys general sued to overturn the policy. The ruling pauses a major data‑collection requirement that universities had been ordered to comply with, preserving current admissions reporting practices while litigation proceeds. Higher education leaders now face a two‑front operational challenge: managing polarized student political activity while navigating sudden shifts in federal data mandates that could reshape compliance workloads and admissions transparency.