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Results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, shows U.S. school children have made “no progress” in reading or mathematics over the past ten years.

Left-wing media are fuming that Secretary DeVos visited a Catholic elementary school that declares transgender ideology “immoral.”

The Trump administration is calling on the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Duke University to revise their joint Middle Eastern studies program or lose taxpayer funding. According to the Department of Education, the program offers very few, “if any,” programs focused on the historic discrimination against religious minorities in the Middle East, and lacks balance, focusing on the “positive aspects of Islam” while having an “absolute absence” of a similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity and Judaism.

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.

The National Education Association and the California state government have caused 80,000 California students to lose their federal financial aid through a combination of political vindictiveness and bureaucratic incompetence.

A lawsuit filed against Michigan State University may become the first prospective class-action suit to benefit students accused of campus sex assault.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) on Monday quipped “We should send her back” during a speech in which she attacked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “Too many of our children languish in inadequate, ill-equipped schools. Thank you Betsy DeVos,” Stabenow told the NAACP

Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education have opened an investigation into antisemitism at the University of North Carolina and Duke University consortium.

Young conservative women and Turning Point USA chapter leaders from all over the country gathered at the Hyatt Regency Dallas on Thursday to attend the organization’s fifth annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke to a large gathering of young conservative women at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit Thursday evening and called the education system’s failure to properly teach U.S. civics a “huge problem.”

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is hosting a 4-day Young Women Leadership Summit (YWLS) in Dallas, Texas, this weekend. According to the conservative student organization, 1,500 young women from all over the country will be in attendance.

Recently released education-centered polls reveal a sharp divide between black and white Democrats over support for charter schools.

The DeVos family, one of Michigan’s most powerful, announced Wednesday that it is no longer supporting Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) in the wake of his remarks on President Donald Trump and impeachment.

The Trump administration is trying to address the U.S. government’s $1.45 trillion student loan portfolio, including hiring consultants.

A New Jersey state union official said she now regrets her tweet Wednesday stating she hopes U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “dies a horrible, horrible death.”

“I have overridden my people,” Trump said. “We’re funding the Special Olympics.”

Democrats this week are portraying the Trump administration as dismissive of children with disabilities because of proposed budget cuts to the Special Olympics organization.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has launched an investigation into the colleges and universities that were named in the college admissions bribery scandal.

A New York State county jury found a male student not guilty of raping a female student two years ago at Paul Smith’s College, a private school in the Adirondacks.

The Trump administration pushed out goals for modernizing the Higher Education Act Monday including a proposed cap on student loan borrowing.

First lady Melania Trump and a host of Cabinet secretaries and top Trump administration officials reconvened the interagency working group on youth programs in the White House State Dining Room Monday morning, offering information on initiatives with which Be Best may choose to partner.

A tip that the women’s soccer coach at Yale University offered to label an executive’s daughter as a recruit in exchange for cash led to the discovery of the largest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

Panelists at the South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2019 conference this week urged educators to make “social and emotional learning” (SEL) part of every core subject in K–12 classrooms.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos unveiled a plan Thursday that would provide $5 billion to federalize school choice by setting up a nationwide federal tax-credit scholarship program.

“The bill states, ‘The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2020,’” wrote the congressman. “Neither Congress nor the President, through his appointees, has the constitutional authority to dictate how and what our children must learn.”

“The Supreme Court ruled in the Plyler decision that free public education cannot by denied to any student from Kindergarten to the last year of high school (12th grade) due to their parents’ migration status,” the AFC notice to Spanish-speaking parents states. “Just like the public education system, the ESA program does not require proof of income, proof of migration status, and children do not need to have certain grades to enter the ESA program, according to the ESA law.”

However, the “1 in 5” statistic – spread widely by the Obama administration through its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – is “wildly at odds with the official crime statistics,” said American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar and former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers, in a fact-check video.

A professor from Marlboro College in Vermont argued this week that Betsy DeVos’ new Title IX guidelines help survivors of sexual assault, a controversial stance in the eyes of leftists in academia.

Far-left pop icon Cher exploded in a rant against President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, saying that she can’t wait until “they all go to jail.”

A federal school safety commission led by members of the Trump administration is recommending that the Departments of Justice and Education rescind the Obama-era school policy that urged more lenient forms of discipline in public schools for students of color and those of other minority groups.

The White House School Safety Commission’s report recommends gun confiscation orders as part of an overarching response to mass shootings in gun-free schools.

President Donald Trump’s school safety commission recommends that schools train and arm personnel to help prevent mass shootings, White House officials previewed on Tuesday.

In June, DeVos said it was her hope that adopting some of the education policies of these nations would “help catch us up” to students from other countries.

The ACLU came out against a new education department policy that bolsters due process rights for those accused of sexual assault on campus, a moved condemned by the Atlantic.

Former Vice President Joe Biden used an already debunked statistic Friday to support his condemnation of the education department’s proposed rule to handle allegations of sexual misconduct on college campuses.

The response of the ACLU to the Trump education department’s proposal to handle allegations of sexual misconduct on college campuses has more people convinced the organization’s original mission to protect civil liberties no longer exists.