Trump White House plans to garnish wages of student loan borrowers
Forty percent of student loan debtors do not have college degrees.
By Jesse Valentine - April 22, 2025Education
Governors in New Hampshire and Nevada are campaigning as champions of education while backing cuts to public schools.
By Jesse Valentine - March 26, 2025Florida topped every state in the nation for the number of books removed from school libraries during the 2023-2024 school year.
By Jay Waagmeester, Florida Phoenix - November 01, 2024In August, the Kearsarge Regional School Board took up a thorny question: How should it comply with a new law barring transgender girls from middle and high school sports?
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - October 04, 2024Parents and teachers can sue a school district if transgender students use facilities that don’t conform with their birth gender
By Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Lookout - September 27, 2024The Republican nominee for North Carolina superintendent called for mass arrests and suggested that former President Donald Trump activate the military to stay in power, in a now-deleted video posted after the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.
By Galen Bacharier, NC Newsline - August 12, 2024Michigan lawmakers expanded access for free pre-K and community college in the Fiscal Year 2025 education budget, which were centerpiece plans for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who’s planning to sign the bill Tuesday afternoon in Flint.
By Lucy Valeski, Michigan Advance - July 23, 2024‘A victory for common sense itself,’ says Kentucky Attorney General Coleman
By McKenna Horsley, Kentucky Lantern - July 18, 2024Tuition for in-state students at Pennsylvania’s 10 state universities will remain unchanged for the coming academic year following a vote Wednesday by the Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education Board of Governors.
By Peter Hall, Pennsylvania Capital Star - July 17, 2024They cite opposition to ‘welfare’ and administrative costs in declining to participate in Summer EBT.
By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline - June 27, 2024While speaking in Grand Rapids on Monday, Former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered little when asked if she would support former President Donald Trump
By Kyle Davidson, Michigan Advance - June 18, 2024They demand the right to object to removal of challenged material
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix - June 06, 2024The U.S. District Court of New Hampshire struck down a 2021 law Tuesday that barred teachers from advocating for certain topics, siding with teachers unions and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire and ruling that the law is unconstitutionally vague.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - May 28, 2024Ohio House Democrats have laid out a plethora of bills targeting the education system in the state, impacting everything from teacher pay to oversight of private school vouchers and the overall funding of the public school system.
By Susan Tebben, Ohio Capital Journal - May 28, 2024Amended bill would add elementary, middle school and collegiate sports to limits in place for high school
By Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon - April 16, 2024Covenant parents emotional in wake of vote
By Sam Stockard, Tennessee Lookout - April 10, 2024The parents of children killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have a stark warning for Utah lawmakers: “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when and where the next school shooting will happen.”
By Kyle Dunphey, Utah News Dispatch - February 21, 2024Two new education bills have been introduced by Democrats in the Ohio House: One to ensure school meals for any students who request them, and another to increase base teacher salaries to $50,000 per year. The future of the proposed laws is uncertain with Republican supermajorities controlling both the Ohio House and Ohio Senate.
By Susan Tebben, Ohio Capital Journal - February 15, 2024Top White House officials are urging schools to double down on tutoring, extra learning time, and efforts to boost attendance as the spending deadline for pandemic aid nears.
By Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat and Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 22, 2024House Republicans are looking for a permanent fix, ‘not a Band-Aid,’ a leading lawmaker says
By James Brooks, Alaska Beacon and Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon - January 17, 2024Cruz’s remarks fit into a larger trend of Republicans trashing schools and teachers.
By Jesse Valentine - January 16, 2024The Minnesota Parents Alliance and its conservative allies spent thousands on school board races this year, predicting that their candidates who promoted “parental rights” would win big among suburbanites. But voters last week rejected the majority of the group’s candidates, electing 11 out of the 44 that MPA endorsed. Despite the losses, MPA did score […]
By Michelle Griffith, Minnesota Reformer - November 17, 2023Americans don’t want to get rid of the Department of Education, but that hasn’t stopped GOP presidential candidates from talking about it.
By Will Fritz - October 20, 2023Congressional Republicans have tried to scapegoat teachers for school closures during the COVID-19 emergency, the AFT says.
By Will Fritz - October 16, 2023A GOP state senator says her bill requiring schools to notify parents about 'sexually explicit' content in library books was not intended to lead to book bans.
By Will Fritz - October 16, 2023Conservative attacks on education are doing real harm, advocates say.
By Will Fritz - October 12, 2023This debt relief has occurred despite ongoing opposition from congressional Republicans and a Supreme Court ruling against the administration’s plans for debt forgiveness.
By Oliver Willis - October 05, 2023The Biden administration's plan will help low-income borrowers as student loan repayments restart.
By Will Fritz - October 04, 2023A school in suburban Chicago has been subjected to three bomb threats after the social media account Libs of TikTok shared images of a pride flag in one of the school’s classrooms.
By Will Fritz - September 29, 2023The 2023-2024 state budget also provides free lunches to all students previously eligible for reduced-cost lunches.
By Will Fritz - September 26, 2023A high school student painted the mural last year after winning an art contest.
By Will Fritz - September 22, 2023