Education

"Our children and our nation deserve nothing less than safe schools and low-tech, child-centered, educator-driven learning."

A lawsuit alleges that DeVos is still garnishing wages from workers who defaulted on their loans in the middle of a pandemic.

State legislatures skew strongly white and male, and have a track record of preempting policies designed to remove structural barriers for marginalized communities.

Florida has the worst education policies of any state in the nation, and it is about to get even more destructive, more ignorant, more backward.

If a college student tells her professor that she has been sexually assaulted, the professor wouldn’t have to help her at all.

Plan slammed as looking "more like a roadmap for institutions seeking to abuse students and avoid accountability and transparency rather than a plan to protect students and taxpayers."

In Kentucky, a first-time candidate, math teacher R. Travis Brenda, knocked off the state’s House Republican Majority Leader Jonathan Shell.

"The U.S. Department of Education sells out to the for-profit college industry."

DeVos and her department seem intent on undermining the Obama protections put into place

The U.S. Department of Education announced new transparency measures for college accreditors today, encouraging the organizations to focus more on student outcomes such as graduation rates. As part of a series of legislative recommendations, the agency also called on Congress to give it the power to set standards for how accreditors measure student achievement.