In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, he made a blunt promise about the US Department of Education: “We’re going to shut it down as quickly as possible.” In a matter of months, 40 ...

As AI transforms how we work, live and learn, higher education is more than another player — it needs to lead the way. Higher education must strike a balance as it prepares the next generation for a ...

The Department of Education was established in 1980 with the promise of improving education outcomes for America’s students. $3 trillion in taxpayer dollars later, national test scores in reading, ...

Aggressive. That’s the word that comes to mind when assessing the pace of change promising — or threatening, depending on your point of view — to sweep through education at the top of 2026. To help ...

Susan Popkin has a brother-in-law who was kept out of traditional education until high school. David Bateman has a brother-in-law who couldn’t enroll for the first 17 years of his life. These stories ...

Republicans generally supportive of President Donald Trump’s goal of dismantling the Education Department still have their doubts about key parts of his plans for the agency, with one GOP lawmaker ...

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday eliminated regulations going back more than 60 years that recognized liability for disparate impact, such as when statistics demonstrate a discriminatory ...

Today, the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Labor (DOL) issued the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 competitions for the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program and the Innovative Approaches to ...

Houston ISD Deputy Superintendent Kristen Hole speaks to the board of managers about special education services on May 14, 2026. Parents, teachers and students spoke out against Houston ISD's move to ...

Special education advocate Karen Mayer Cunningham speaks to concerned Houston ISD parents about the district’s upcoming changes to special education services. A small group of parents gathered ...

California state officials and some education advocates joined others around the country in condemning a plan announced Tuesday by the Trump administration to disassemble the U.S. Department of ...