Department of Education

Every county in Maine is now safe for in-person learning in schools, the Maine Department of Education has said. The state has been using a color-coded system to advise schools of the level of risk of coronavirus transmission. The education department said Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford and York counties have all been moved to the “green,” which is the lowest risk…

California, Michigan and three other states are suing the U.S. Department of Education over pandemic relief funds

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Education Department and Secretary Betsy DeVos over revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses, claiming that the changes would “inflict significant harm” on victims and “dramatically undermine” their civil rights, NBC News reports.

The French family of Westwood is like many other Massachusetts families, juggling work schedules and remote learning for their kids, two boys in kindergarten and fifth grade. “It’s challenging for the kids themselves I think to hold themselves accountable and for parents to hold their kids accountable, without them being in the school,” Patrick French said. Now, with remote...

A video by the New Hampshire Department of Education shows students in NH schools saying the pledge of allegiance during remote learning.

A federal judge has held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court for violating an order to stop collecting loans from thousands of former for-profit college students. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim issued the ruling Thursday in San Francisco. She also fined the Education Department $100,000. Kim previously ordered DeVos to stop collecting federal loans from former Corinthian Colleges...

The New York City Department of Education has proposed eliminating chocolate milk from school menus in favor of options that contain less sugar

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours to make an impact on the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Monday. The Chicago-based sorority is celebrating its second AKA Impact Day on Sept. 16 by raising the money for the AKA-HBCU Endowment Fund. The fundraising drive comes as some HBCUs are reportedly facing...

New Hampshire’s supreme court has accepted appeal notices filed by the state and several school districts in a lawsuit that challenges the method for funding public schools. The court, in its order Wednesday, also said the case appears to be eligible for mediation if all the parties agree.

Even after a significant infusion of cash, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is doing little in the way of forgiveness. Just 661 out of about 54,000 applicants, or roughly 1%, of loans have been discharged under the expanded program, a government report has found. “It’s not surprising,” said student loan expert Mark Kantrowitz. “The process is too complicated.”

The government on Thursday ordered Michigan State University to make sweeping changes and pay a $4.5 million fine after determining that it failed to adequately respond to sexual assault complaints against Larry Nassar, a campus sports doctor who molested elite gymnasts and other female athletes. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced the penalty after the conclusion of two federal investigations. She...

The office of an African American employee of the U.S. Department of Education was vandalized earlier this week, and other employees have expressed concern that the attack may have been racially motivated. African art figurines were found beheaded, with their limbs removed, and a school desegregation poster was damaged, according to Education Department employees and a congressional aide. The incident...

New Hampshire is getting a $46 million federal grant to expand charter schools. The five-year grant will support efforts focusing on at-risk, educationally disadvantaged students.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday a new plan to eliminate student loan debt for disabled veterans, NBC News reported. “The debt of disabled veterans will be entirely erased,” Trump said during a prepared speech at the 75th annual American Veterans convention in Louisville, Kentucky. “In a few moments, I will sign a memorandum directing the Department of Education to eliminate...

Cardi B blasted the NYPD Tuesday night in a profanity-laced Instagram video.

A state education official is off the job after allegations recently surfaced that he sexually abused one or more children decades ago.

A jury ruled Monday in favor of a former Manhattan high school student who was severely burned when a chemistry class experiment went horrifically wrong in 2014.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has sometimes used her personal email accounts for government business and has not always properly saved the messages, according to an internal investigation released Monday. The agency’s Office of Inspector General, which was investigating at the request of House Democrats, said it searched the department’s email system and found a “limited” number of messages to or...

The parents of four 12-year-old girls who say they were illegally strip-searched in school are suing a New York district in federal court.

As she scanned the letter’s black type, Alexis Patterson felt herself go numb. “The U.S. Department of Treasury … applied all or part of your payment to delinquent debt that you owe,” it read. Patterson stopped reading. One thing mattered now. The single mother would not receive her $3,063 tax refund, including her child tax credit. The government would instead...