The Latest Breaking News from Department of Education

Who qualifies and how to apply for the forgiveness plan, and will the student loan payment freeze be extended?

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced plans to forgive a portion of federal student debt for qualified borrowers and to extend the loan payment freeze until the end of the year.

Several GOP-led states have imposed restrictions on book content targeting topics like race, gender and sexuality.

The $6,595-a-year school also said staff ‘would refer to students only by biological gender’

The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it was putting forward another round of loan cancellations for former students of a closed for-profit college.

Teachers are demanding a rise in pay that is in keeping with inflation and reflects their contribution to society

Support in Northern Ireland for integrated education – schools attended by both Protestant and Catholic children – is high. There are many factors behind this, including the view that separate schools perpetuate divisions and are an anachronism in an increasingly secularised society.

NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia school boards have until the end of the year to adopt policies to inform parents if any instructional materials contain sexually explicit content, the latest step in the debate over what and how children should be taught.

It has emerged that some schools are charging as much as £600 for parents to buy branded uniforms

A federal judge from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee on July 15, 2022, struck down a Department of Education order that aims to protect transgender students and workers from discrimination. 

The family of a severely disabled child, who is bound for a notoriously violent rural high school, fear a bump or knock could cost him his life.