Department Of Education

Today's homeschool advocates are parents who don't believe that the current school model is best, or enough, for their children.

• By Elena Silva

The proposed policies could go into effect without requiring a vote from Congress.

• By Rebecca Worby

An uptick in federal investigations into the mishandling of sexual assault on college campuses has done little to affect applications or donations to universities.

• By Jared Keller

Betsy Devos is leading a movement to roll back the initiatives used by the Obama administration to reduce racial discrimination in school punishments.

• By Annie Waldman

The DOE's new programs will also support improvement in English proficiency.

• By Elena Gooray

As the government continues to restructure under the Trump administration, the American people continue to hold favorable opinions of federal agencies and departments like the CIA, Federal Reserve, FBI, and EPA.

• By Candace Butera

A spokesperson for the Department of Education said the agency will not consider or investigate complaints filed by transgender students against schools banning them from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.

• By Candace Butera

Betsy DeVos rescinded Obama-era guidelines that pushed colleges and universities to use the lowest legal standard of proof in judging cases of sexual assault or violence.

• By Elena Gooray

The Trump administration has quietly removed CCAMPIS, a childcare subsidy for student parents attending college, from its 2018 budget. Over one million student parents' ability to afford childcare hangs in the balance.

• By Natalie Pattillo

The unit has primarily regulated for-profit institutions, including those managed by DeVry.

• By Elena Gooray

More than 30 "disappointed and alarmed" senators penned a letter chastising civil rights enforcement at the Department of Education.

• By Annie Waldman

Far-right orthodoxy on education casts students as customers paying for a service. That rhetoric tricks students into chasing bad options.

• By David M. Perry

James Runcie submitted his resignation following an apparent disagreement with Betsy DeVos over his scheduled testimony on improper aid payments.

• By Elena Gooray

The cuts are expected to affect 150 positions in the Department of Education.

• By Elena Gooray

A new report from the Department of Education calls on schools to improve the graduation gap.

• By Annie Waldman

Why is Congress leaving regulation of the higher education industry up to the higher education industry?

• By Alexander Holt & Amy Laitinen

Accreditation agencies have recently come under fire for failing to keep schools accountable. Now the Education Department is looking to change that.

• By Annie Waldman

Classrooms are increasingly diverse—but in terms of the student body, not the teaching workforce. Kaylan Connally and Melissa Tooley examine why we must mind the minority gap.

• By Kaylan Connally & Melissa Tooley

Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry as each group tries to fend off the government’s push for more accountability.

• By Alec MacGillis

That’s the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country’s child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality.

• By Bill Raden

A new study shows that sexual assaults reported under the Clery Act decline after government audits, suggesting drastic underreporting.

• By Nathan Collins