The Latest Breaking News from Education Department

For-profit colleges enroll only 8% of college students, yet they account for 30% of all student loan defaults. These schools often lure in first-generation students, those from low-income communities, and veterans, through aggressive marketing and federal loans and grants.

The South Australian government has been accused of playing favourites with a multi-million dollar fund for school upgrades after only sites in Labor-held electorates received cash for projects.

We know Australian schools are in the grip of a teacher shortage. Federal and state education ministers are currently putting together a plan to fix it, which is due in December.

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona pushed back Wednesday against Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s new student loan debt forgiveness program, saying it would curb defaults and boost the economy.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona pushed back against GOP criticism of the Biden administration’s new student loan forgiveness program.

So now we know: Pandemic-related restrictions were devastating to the project of educating our kids. The Education Department dropped the news last week that America’s experiment with remote learning has reduced young children’s standardized test scores to levels not seen in two decades. Although performance fell in every demographic group,…

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Relying on Section 432(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as some propose, has many of the same flaws as the Administration's emergency powers theory.

Can you get a refund on payments you made during the pandemic? How do you know if you made too much money to qualify? Answers to these questions and more.