Depending on whom you ask, the programs are either another avenue for school choice drawing on the generosity of taxpayers, or a workaround to existing bans on giving public money to religious organizations — in this case schools — with…
Acosta and DeVos are expected to speak around 4:30 p.m. ET. Watch live in the player above.
DeVos, who marks six months in office this week, alienated many African-Americans in February when she described historically black colleges as "real pioneers when it comes to school choice."…
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is considering dialing down federal guidance for how colleges and universities should handle sexual misconduct investigations. The Obama administration issued new requirements in 2011 changing how schools should handle investigations on their campuses, drawing both…
The Department of Education will still roll out a website through which borrowers can repay their loans, regardless of their provider.
The Trump administration plans to investigate and sue colleges and universities over admissions practices.
The back and forth between states and the U.S. Education Department over the new federal K-12 law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has become more complicated than many had expected.
"This is an issue we're not getting right," DeVos said after a daylong series of meetings with victims of sexual assault, those who say they were falsely accused and representatives of colleges and universities.
The Trump administration has held up the implementation of Obama-era rules that would have allowed student borrowers to have their debt erased if they had been victims of fraud by for-profit schools. Now 18 states and the District of Columbia…
The Education Department announced Wednesday that it will change two key Obama-era rules governing student loan forgiveness in cases involving fraud and misconduct by universities.
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