The Education Department is handing over more of its programs and grants to other federal agencies. It announced a pair of new agreements Monday that move the Trump administration closer to its goal o...

North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is bringing about a new era in education — and perhaps the end of public schools as we know them.

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

The state’s “All In” program is credited with helping school divisions raise test scores, but the funding ends after the current school year.

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by Marianna Burke of the VA Grassroots Coalition What happens when the chief legal officer of Virginia – the person sworn to uphold the law – breaks it, undermines the U.S. and Virginia Constitutions,...

Republicans quietly passed a first-of-its-kind national school choice program in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” but celebration among advocates was tempered after the Se…

The budget package currently includes a private school voucher program funded through tax breaks.

The Fourth of July commemorates the day a group of ordinary people turned radicals risked everything to break from tyranny and chart a course for a nation governed by the people. This holiday isn’t ab...

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in AJT v. Osseo, overturned a longstanding, problematic Eighth Circuit Court precedent that required...

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The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into Evanston/Skokie School District 65 over alleged discrimination in its policies Thursday.  According to a DOE press release, the investig...

From last year to now, Virginia raised teacher pay by an average of $3,000. Still, the commonwealth’s average pay rate for educators remains stagnant compared to other states, according to the latest ...

Since Trump invited Elon Musk and his DOGE team to cut the federal budget, the federal government has been subject to a bloodbath of firings, layoffs, and closed agencies. Some of the most shocking…

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"The alleged gunman is a quintessentially American school shooter."

Disability rights advocates are filing lawsuits as students, teachers and parents organize to protect education.

Explore why the federal government is demanding impossible when they try to eliminate DEI in public education. This is the 21st century, and the reality is our schools are diverse because our student ...

By Thomas Ultican 4/14/2025 Derek Black’s masterpiece of research, Dangerous Learning, reveals the centuries of struggle for Black Americans to become educated. When I arrived at the Network for Pu…

In a 2017 Education Week interview, Vance said education, not protectionism, is key to a strong American workforce.

Educators must obey the law, meaning schools cannot impede a criminal investigation. But students and teachers have rights, too.

More than 400,000 students in Texas benefit from 504 plans in school, according to the Texas Education Agency.

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The federal government abruptly canceled funding for tutoring and counseling services for children throughout the country, affecting hundreds of students.

By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that Colorado’s Elizabeth school district must return a set of 19 banned books to school library shelves by Saturday evening. The books are primarily by or about LGBTQ p...

The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural regi...