Tag: Department of Education

The Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options—private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling.

Millions in federal education funds meant for minority students are being funneled to right-wing organizations, critics warn, to create a partisan “patriotic education” agenda that erases systemic racism and rewrites U.S. history.

The reduction-in-forces combined with voluntary and incentivized departures would cause an overall mass dismissal of 50 percent of the workforce.

Restarting federal loan garnishments and ending relief programs, the Trump administration advances a sweeping overhaul that critics say punishes struggling borrowers and deepens a national crisis.

The lawsuit argued that the Department of Education has no lawful right to "dictate" curriculum or educational programs and educational institutes are protected under federal law to create their own curriculum.

Educators, unions, and civil rights advocates warn that the Trump administration’s agenda would devastate public schools, privatize education, and gut federal oversight.

Schools and districts across the country rely on research from the IES and contractors such as the American Institutes for Research to guide best practices in classrooms.

We speak to longtime educator Jesse Hagopian about what he calls an “extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity.”

The Debt Collective’s protest underscores the urgent need for student debt relief and a reevaluation of U.S. military spending.