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“Borrowers should contact their lenders,” Trump said, adding that it was “going to make a lot of students happy.” 

At least 10,600 schools have been closed or are scheduled to close in the United States as of Thursday night due to the novel coronavirus, a number that is over 8,500 more than Wednesday’s number of 2,097.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to reverse course on charter schools during Saturday’s MSNBC Public Education Forum 2020 in Pittsburgh.

The DOJ issued a Statement of Interest on Monday regarding Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi, which is facing a lawsuit alleging that the public school threatened students with arrest for exercising their First Amendment rights on campus. “[The school’s] unconstitutional conduct cannot stand,” reads the DOJ’s Statement. “It should comply voluntarily with the First Amendment — and soon.”

Audrey and Richard McIntosh are fighting to change the Title IX process in higher education after their son was expelled from college.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled her new bill to rein in government agency public relations and advertising spending on mascots, koozies, and fidget spinners on Breitbart News Daily.

A student at UCLA has filed a complaint with the Department of Education alleging that her university supports antisemitism.

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.

The Clarion Project has issued an analysis showing how billions of foreign dollars have been infused into American colleges and universities.

Rep. Andy Barr said at a House Financial Services Committee hearing that Congress created the $1.5 trillion student loan debt crisis.

President Trump and Ivanka Trump hosted a gathering Thursday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Pledge to American Workers.

President Trump said Saturday that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) received “too much credit” for attacking Joe Biden (D) during Thursday night’s Democrat debate.

Fact check FALSE: Joe Biden said he only opposed “busing ordered by the Department of Education.” The problem: it didn’t exist yet.

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

Williams College is facing a federal investigation over its decision to refuse official recognition to a pro-Israel student organization.

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

Congressional Democrats and President Obama orchestrated a government takeover of student lending in 2010.

Texas Tech University Medical School announced this week that they will no longer consider race as a factor in the admissions process.

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

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

Peter Kirsanow explained how Obama-era education policies led to racial and ethnic school disciplinary quotas.

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.

Primary school children from the age of five will be taught about gender reassignment, LGBT “families”, and other controversial topics, with parents denied an opt-out, according to reports.

Conservative parents and education activists are expressing alarm over ostensibly well-intentioned school choice legislation that seeks to ensure families of children in private schools, religious schools, and homeschools receive the same tax advantages as those of public school children.

“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 U.S. Department of Education is now investigating claims of anti-male discrimination at the University of Michigan.

Thousands of Jewish families will leave Britain if the government goes ahead with plans to force schools to promote LGBT lifestyles to children, an Orthodox campaigner has warned.

Critics of the Obama-era guidance say it tied the hands of teachers and school officials to administer discipline fairly and effectively and forced them to make statistics – which would be viewed favorably by the federal government – the priority.

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.

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.