Tag: education department

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.

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

District Court Judge Myong J. Joun in Massachusetts reinstated 1,300 Education Department employees and restored "the Department to the status quo."

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.

Under the new regulation, the department will automatically forgive the debt of borrowers who the Social Security Administration has identified as severely disabled.

“Secretary Betsy DeVos and her management team are attempting to strip employees of their collective bargaining rights and kill the union.”