Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) once referred to slavery as ‘the necessary evil upon which the union was built.’

But some of the same states that are expanding rights are at the same time trying to restrict them.

Republican attacks on President Joe Biden’s latest popular plan don’t have much ground to stand on.

The president will lay out his $1.8 trillion proposal, which includes universal preschool, two years of free community college, and monthly $250 payments for parents.

Montana, Tennessee, and Arkansas want to keep gender identity and sexual orientation out of school curricula.

Experts in higher education say a bill Florida Republicans claim will protect free speech will achieve exactly the opposite effect.

Joe Biden’s plan to give all parents free child care may be met with resistance, but experts say it’s necessary to help families in the long run.

The decision could lead to $1 billion in loans being canceled for 72,000 borrowers.

Some 15 million US students lack either home internet access or an electronic device to use for schoolwork. A new federal program hopes to change that.

Policy that impacts Americans’ lives is being introduced out of the spotlight of the national media.

About 40% of families are not ready to send their children back to school and roughly the same number are either unwilling or unsure about vaccination.

GOP officials say their goal is to make ‘a big deal’ out of the issue to win back suburban voters.

Republicans are upset that President Joe Biden is using federal guidelines in determining policy.

A report commissioned by Gov. Ralph Northam says the state needs ‘to address the lingering and disparate effects of Virginia’s segregationist past.’

GOP lawmakers like New York Rep. Elise Stefanik have accused Democrats of ‘cozy[ing] up to Communist China’ by allowing the program to continue on school campuses.

Policy experts say the bill is ‘particularly draconian and cruel’ to transgender youth.

‘In fact, it is not racist at all,’ Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson claimed.

The Community Services Block Grant program was intended to assist low-income communities. Trump wants those funds used for private learning instead.

The South Carolina senator is in favor of local control of education — except when he’s not.

Betsy DeVos doesn’t believe in helping students pay for college.

It is yet another way in which the pandemic has exposed the gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States.

Americans have lost more jobs since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than during the entire Great Recession.

‘I’m not sure there’s a role at the department to collect and compile that research,’ Trump’s education secretary said Tuesday.

Also: Congress passes a bill to create a national suicide hotline, transgender individuals win a lawsuit over locker room policies, and California passes a law to mandate more diversity on corporate boards.

The Home School Legal Defense Association lobbies for corporal punishment and opposes gay rights.

Ignorance is strength in Trump’s Orwellian rewrite of history.

After complaining about the House relief bill, Ted Cruz is demanding $5 billion to subsidize parochial and private education.

Several schools that opened have had to shut down due to coronavirus infections.

A recent study found that children aged 10 and older spread the coronavirus at the same rates adults do.

The union’s president blasted Donald Trump for ordering schools to reopen even as the virus continues to surge.