The Biden administration released a “back-to-school” video to assure transgender students the federal government is on their side and ready to hear their complaints of discrimination.
The U.S. Department of Education told Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) it supports local school districts imposing mask mandates.
A woman has petitioned the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights after a school principal separated students based on race.
Older Americans represent the fastest-growing demographic for student loan debt either from their own debt or that incurred on behalf of their children, data from the U.S. Department of Education shows.
The Biden administration has announced that federal Title IX protections will now be expanded to cover transgender students.
U.S. Ed Sec. Miguel Cardona is backing biological men who say they are “transgender women” to compete in sports against biological women.
On Monday the U.S. Senate confirmed Miguel Cardona, President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the U.S. Education Department, by a vote of 64-33.
Joe Biden plans to nominate Connecticut’s commissioner of education Miguel Cardona to head the U.S. Department of Education.
The former president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union is making a pitch to become U.S. Secretary of Education should Joe Biden become president.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced this week an extension on payments for student loans and interest accrual until January 31, 2021.
Democrats and teachers’ unions have demanded $305 billion in coronavirus aid, claiming the taxpayer funds are necessary to reopen public schools “safely.”
President Trump marked National Religious Freedom Day by issuing a guidance letter to schools on students’ Constitutional right to prayer.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Saturday attempted to use the record-breaking, multimillion-dollar contract between the New York Yankees and pitcher Gerrit Cole to push for increased teacher salaries.
#RedforEd teachers plan to hold a protest against state legislators who are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) at the organization’s annual States and Nation Policy Summit meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Wednesday.
A report from the GAO found religious-based hate crimes have been on the rise on U.S. college campuses during the past decade.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is fining Michigan State University a record $4.5 million and demanding sweeping changes after determining that it failed to respond to sexual assault complaints against Larry Nassar, a former sports doctor at the school who also worked at USA Gymnastics.
Former Vice President Joe Biden promised to increase pay for teachers in public schools located in low-income communities by tripling Title I funding at a speech to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Houston on Tuesday.
A Democrat state senator and a Teamsters president said the dramatic drop in school suspensions in New York City since the Obama-era policy urging more lenient forms of discipline for minority students has led to “chaos” and a lack of “accountability” for dangerous behavior.
Education secretary Betsy DeVos “is not eager” to go along with other departments in the Trump administration regarding the possible establishment of a legal definition of sex that would ensure individuals’ identification as either male or female, says a new report.
“Schools have a duty to protect the privacy and safety of all students and Decatur Schools clearly failed this young girl. The current approach that many schools are taking of passing these transgender bathroom policies isn’t working; they fail to provide basic privacy or ensure the safety of all students.”
“It doesn’t take undercover investigative journalists to unmask the massive privacy invasion enabled by educational technology and federal mandates,” conservative author and CRTV host Michelle Malkin wrote at National Reviewin April. “The kiddie data heist is happening out in the open — with Washington politicians and bureaucrats as brazen co-conspirators.”
U.S. Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) has released an email newsletter in which the group warns parents that children need to be protected in school from both the content of what is being taught and from the collection of their private data.
According to the news report of the court filings, both women used the personal identification information of recruits to apply for admission into area community colleges. They also used their recruits’ identifications to apply for federal student aid, claiming the individuals named on the forms were regular students.
“Rather than equip an individual to pursue whatever goal he sets for himself as part of his God-given freedom, this is, instead, the German model being pushed by misguided business interests and some state interests,” she explained. “As a result, the type of education an individual would receive would be influenced by crony corporations dictating to schools the skills needed for future workers.”
A national coalition of United States parents and state leaders focused on returning education policy back to parents and local communities has launched a petition to end the federal department of education.
The American Freedom Alliance hosted “From Gold to Dust: The Destruction of California,” over the weekend that featured an all-star lineup of conservative experts outlining why the California dream has been evaporating and how to bring it back.
The fallout continues in a Texas border school district where officials recently reprimanded three more administrators and two former employees for their alleged roles in a seven-year standardized test cheating scandal.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that directed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to review federal regulations that infringe upon state and local governments’ ability to enact education policy at the level closest to the American people.
In a brief press release posted on the U.S. Department of Education’s website, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said she has accepted an invitation from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten to visit a public school in Van Wert, Ohio.
The Christian Action Network (CAN) says the U.S Department of Education is funding an Islamic education program in America’s public schools, in which students in grades 5 through 12 are taught the Islamic way of life in a way that crosses the line from academics to indoctrination.
North Carolina Rep. David Rouzer (R) has introduced a second bill in the House that seeks to eliminate the U.S. Education Department.
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has chosen, as a new department staff member, a former Indiana education official who also worked for years at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s education foundation. Education media Chalkbeat reports Neil Ruddock has been working
Half of college students believe their student loans will be forgiven after graduation, according to a recent poll.
Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie says his bill that would abolish the federal Department of Education should be taken seriously because the interest it has generated means the measure could ultimately end up on President Donald Trump’s desk.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is a co-sponsor of a recently introduced bill that would eliminate the federal education department.
Newly sworn-in U.S. Education Department Secretary Betsy DeVos told her staff members that, despite disagreements with others, she would be working to “find common ground” so that the department’s overriding focus would be students and their success in school.
Americans from across the political spectrum are voicing strong reactions to the Senate’s confirmation of now-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is introducing legislation that would abolish the federal education department.
Vice President Mike Pence cast an historic deciding vote Tuesday to confirm Betsy DeVos as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
With debate on Betsy DeVos’ nomination ended, President Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s top education post will likely require the rare situation of a sitting vice president to trek over to the Senate to break a 50-50 tie in order to get her over the finish line.