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Department Of Education

  1. what we know
    Biden Touts $1.2 Billion in Student Loan Relief With Eye to 2024
    What to Know About Biden’s Student-Loan-Forgiveness PlansThe Biden administration’s efforts to offer wide-scale student-debt relief continue to face legal roadblocks.
    By Chas Danner, Nia Prater, and Lynnley Browning
  2. politics
    Some Student-Loan Borrowers Get a Nice SurpriseThose eligible for loan forgiveness under the SAVE plan will have their balances cleared in February, months ahead of schedule.
    By Nia Prater
  3. student debt
    Biden Administration Extends Student Loan Payment Freeze to January 2022The Biden administration extended the pause on payments, which was set to expire at the end of September. It’s expected to be the final extension.
    By Nia Prater
  4. betsy devos
    Betsy DeVos: Stop Using ‘My Name As Clickbait’Speaking voluntarily in front of a room full of education writers, DeVos said, “I don’t enjoy the publicity that comes with my position.”
    By Matt Stieb
  5. betsy devos
    Betsy DeVos Wants to Eliminate All Federal Funding for the Special OlympicsFor the third year in a row, DeVos hopes to cut federal funding for the program — a small financial gesture, but one that shows where priorities lie.
    By Matt Stieb
  6. Betsy DeVos Announces Rollback of Title IX Guidance on Campus Sexual Assault“The truth is that the system established by the prior administration has failed too many students,” DeVos said.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  7. education
    Betsy DeVos Knew How to Wield Power in Michigan. It’s Not Working in D.C.Who is she? And how did she get to be head of our schools?
    By Lisa Miller
  8. 18 States Sue Betsy DeVos for Refusing to Enforce Student-Loan ProtectionsThe Education secretary is blocking new rules that would make it easier for students defrauded by for-profit colleges to have their debts forgiven.
    By Eric Levitz
  9. DeVos Appoints Professional Clinton-Hater to Key Civil-Rights PositionThe woman who will for the time being run DoEd’s Office of Civil Rights has has quite the career of ideological extremism and intense partisanship.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. select all
    Department of Education Misspells W.E.B. Du Bois Tweet, Also Misspells ApologyHappy Black History Month!
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  11. Betsy DeVos Asked Twitter a Question, and Twitter Was Not AmusedWarning: Potential grizzlies ahead.
    By Jared T. Miller
  12. WATCH: Betsy DeVos Was Just Confirmed in an Unprecedented Tiebreaker VoteVice-President Mike Pence delivered the first tie-breaking vote for a cabinet appointee in history.
    By Christine Nguyen and Jared T. Miller
  13. trump transition
    Does Betsy DeVos Really Believe in Public Schools?The would-be secretary of Education is committed to eroding accountability for the use of taxpayers’ education funding.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. White House Cracks Down on For-Profit CollegesThe Department of Education plans to issue a rule that would forgive billions of dollars in loans granted to hundreds of thousands of students at for-profit schools that have defrauded or misled them.
    By Michelle Celarier
  15. America Brings Home Bad Report CardHigh-school seniors in the U.S. showed no gains in math or reading skills in 2015. Only 37 percent were prepared for college coursework.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. One of the Last Remaining Members of Obama’s Original Cabinet Is Stepping DownSay good-bye to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. His likely successor is a Brooklynite.
    By Jen Kirby
  17. school daze
    Substitute Teacher Fired for Asking Kids for Relationship Advice She kept it G-rated.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  18. school daze
    NYC DOE Scrapping Plan to Eliminate Dinosaurs and Unpleasant Topics From Citywide TestsCreatures from outer space are back in business.
    By Brett Smiley
  19. school daze
    Dinosaurs and Aliens Banned From Citywide TestsThe Department of Education is no fun at all. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  20. crimes and misdemeanors
    Are Teachers the New Cops?Fourteen Department of Education employees have been arrested so far this year.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  21. Rupert Murdoch Can’t Get Enough of the NYC DoEHe makes yet another hire from the schools administration.
    By Noreen Malone
  22. education
    NYC Closing or Cutting Down 25 SchoolsThe Department of Education has unveiled their contraction plans.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  23. sexual harassment
    Bronx Pervert Principal Headed to Sensitivity TrainingIt sounds like he needs a lot of it.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  24. city report card
    Queens Schools Come Out on Top in City Report Card72 percent of its schools got A or B grade, compared to 47 percent in the Bronx.
    By Andre Tartar
  25. school daze
    Even Raising a Child Genius Might Not Get Your Kindergartner Into a Good SchoolThirteen percent more NYC kindergartners tested “gifted.”
    By Nitasha Tiku
  26. U.S. Fines Virginia Tech Over 2007 ShootingFor failing to alert its campus fast enough.
    By Julie Gerstein
  27. school daze
    Department of Ed to Launch New Elementary School in Lower ManhattanThis will help with the neighborhood’s overcrowding problem.
    By Chris Rovzar
  28. school daze
    City Unveils List of 4,600 Teachers to Be Cut If Albany Doesn’t Change ‘Last In, First Out’Naturally, the cuts would affect poor neighborhoods first.
    By Chris Rovzar
  29. school daze
    DOE Closes Website for School Principals to Shop for Hidden CamerasNow where are they going to buy pencil-sharpener cameras?
    By Nitasha Tiku
  30. school daze
    Just Because Our Students Are Graduating, Doesn’t Mean They Learned MuchWho needs a career or college anyway, right?
    By Nitasha Tiku
  31. bad education
    Graduates Lack Basic Skills, and So Do the Companies Hired to Turn That AroundGraduation rates are up, but is anyone learning anything?
    By Nitasha Tiku