How Biden’s Education Department will tackle pandemic and Trump-era policies
Addressing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on education will be among some of the most urgent issues facing President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office.
States sue U.S. Department of Education over diverted virus relief funds for schools
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, the attorneys general of California and Michigan say the department run by Secretary Betsy DeVos is attempting to take pandemic relief funds away from K-12 public schools and divert them to private schools.
Trump administration reviewing foreign funding at U.S. colleges
The U.S. Education Department has opened investigations into foreign funding at Georgetown University and Texas A&M University as part of a broader push to monitor international money flowing to American colleges.
Lawmakers debate future of loan relief for public workers
The government promised public service workers their debt could be erased if they made payments for 10 years, but officials have largely failed to deliver.
The No.1 worry for high schoolers applying to college is student debt, according to a recent survey from The Princeton Review.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is scheduled to testify before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee Thursday.
Letters sent to the schools Monday and obtained by The Associated Press say the department is conducting a "preliminary investigation" to determine whether they violated federal laws or rules surrounding the management of federal student aid.
The Education Department is recommending restoring a controversial college accrediting agency, giving it a year to resolve remaining concerns.
The plan calls for merging the education and labor departments and moving the federal food stamp program to the Department of Health and Human Services and renaming that agency. Many of the changes would require approval from Congress.
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