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Biden administration forgives $3.9 billion in student loans at ITT Technical Institute

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.

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NI schools face further strikes in new term as teaching union ballots on industrial action

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

Belfast Live

Integrated education in Northern Ireland: why progress is slow despite support

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.

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Policies that notify Virginia parents of ‘sexually explicit content’ in school materials are on the way

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.

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Northern Ireland Education Minister urged to further increase school uniform grant as parents struggle with rising costs

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

Belfast Live

Federal judge blocks Biden administration guidance on transgender students

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.

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Fears for safety of disabled student at Walgett Community College

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.

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WA Education Minister declines to answer attendance plan questions amid Halls Creek high school probe

The Department of Education is questioning its own staff in response to an ABC investigation that raised allegations that attendance plans for students were botched.

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Biden’s slow-walk on student loans means more pressure to go big

WASHINGTON — While President Joe Biden draws out his decision on forgiving student loans, progressive lawmakers, civil rights groups, labor leaders and other advocates are taking the opportunity to press him to aim for more than $10,000 per borrower.

Tribune News Service

Survey finds 32% of girls ‘cannot access period products at school’

Girlguiding is calling on the Department of Education to fully evaluate England’s Period Products Scheme and make it permanent

Wales Online

Thousands of Irish families have just days left to apply for €500 saving

Bus Eireann issued the reminder to parents this week as their new application is due to close in just two days - on Friday, July 29 2022

Irish Mirror

California private school and staffers indicted in death of 13-year-old autistic boy

A now-shuttered Sacramento-area private school for special needs students and three of its former employees have been indicted in connection with the 2018 death of a 13-year-old autistic boy, who was held in a face-down restraint for nearly two hours, authorities said.

Los Angeles Times

Training to help Manchester residents into employment after a career break awarded £7m

The bootcamps will support people aged 19 and over

Birmingham Post

36 people injured after school bus overturns in the Bronx

There were no children on board the bus, which was full of adult bus drivers on their way to provide transport for an NYC summer school program

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Mum 'could have cried' over school uniform bill - as support grant doesn't cover it

The single mum said more needs to be done to help struggling families after she had to fork out hundreds of pounds for her daughter's secondary school uniform, even before the price of her PE kit

Belfast Live

Mum 'nearly in tears at uniform bill' as support grant 'doesn't go far enough'

A despairing mum has said she paid more than £200 for her daughter's first secondary school uniform without including a PE kit

Salon

Moms 4 Liberty: Warriors with big plans

At the Moms for Liberty summit, they gave Ron DeSantis a sword. That wasn't the strangest or scariest part by far

The Independent UK

Trump admin education secretary Betsy DeVos wants to abolish Education Department

Conservative groups rally behind effort to seize power over school boards and enact right-wing agenda

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Republicans Seek Child Support Payments for Fetuses

Plus: Judge blocks Title IX guidance, Amazon admits turning over Ring surveillance footage to cops, and more...

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Four major challenges facing Britain's education system after the pandemic

The UK goverment’s Department for Education has some new ministers in charge following the political turmoil surrounding Boris Johnson’s resignation. After resigning only two days into the job of education secretary, Michelle Donelan has been replaced by James Cleverly, MP for Braintree.

Tribune News Service

College grads buried with debt wait for Biden's decision on student loan forgiveness

PITTSBURGH — When Allie Holler started Duquesne University in 2017, the York County native remembers encountering a class divide markedly different from what she knew from her semi-rural hometown — with “super preppy” kids and their elitist attitudes mixed among her peers from the lower middle class.

Reason

The Biden Administration's Proposed Policy To Reduce Student Debt Is Only Going To Make the Problem Worse

Instead of attacking the student debt crisis at its source, the Biden administration is throwing money at the problem.

The Independent UK

Work at a school or nonprofit? You could erase student loans

A deadline is fast approaching for teachers, librarians, nurses and others who work in public service to apply to have their student loan debt forgiven

Belfast Live

Education Authority's treatment of staff and parents at Co Derry school "shameful" says councillor

The Education Authority has proposed to close the primary school from August next year

Irish Mirror

SNAs being asked to carry out “demeaning” work in some schools

Representatives from Fórsa trade union met last week to discuss the accreditation of SNAs

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