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The state board of education voted Monday to raise the minimum score that this year’s incoming freshman class and at least the four classes that follow will have to attain on the MCAS test in order to graduate high school, a controversial decision that was blasted by teachers union officials and a handful of lawmakers. The Board of Elementary...

Massachusetts state education officials are set to hold a meeting Monday to discuss potentially raising the score students must achieve on the MCAS standardized test.

The government relaxed the complex rules to apply to the program last fall. Here’s what you need to know if you want to erase your student loans

The Education Department has canceled around $6.8 billion in student debt for more than 110,000 borrowers through the public service loan forgiveness waiver.

The Ohio Department of Education says a school whose legitimacy was scrutinized after its supposedly top-tier football team got clobbered in an ESPN-televised game didn’t live up to its billing educationally either, and turned out to be “a scam.”

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday denounced a conservative group’s offer to pay $500 to the first person who “catches” a public school teacher violating New Hampshire’s new limits on the discussion of systemic racism and other topics. Sununu had opposed an earlier version of the legislation that echoed a Trump administration order and sought to ban discussion of...

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday denounced a conservative group’s offer to pay $500 to the first person who “catches” a public school teacher violating New Hampshire’s new limits on the discussion of systemic racism and other topics. Sununu had opposed an earlier version of the legislation that echoed a Trump administration order and sought to ban discussion of...

The Biden administration is temporarily relaxing the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements

The Biden administration says it will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with disabilities that leave them unable to earn significant incomes

The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced it would extend the student loan pause first issued due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic until Jan. 31.

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.”