The Latest Breaking News from Education Department

A new federal report finds that record-keeping failures by the Education Department may have left thousands of Americans stuck with student debt that should have been forgiven

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is taking further steps to ease the burden of student loans, but new actions announced Tuesday were well short of what many Democrats want to see.

The Future Tech Career Institute on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago stands accused of cheating students out of a promised education, which, unfortunately, is nothing new at for-profit colleges.

The Biden administration confirmed Wednesday morning that it has extended the federal student loan payment pause through Aug. 31, 2022, saying in a press release that this extension will allow for a “responsible phase-down of pandemic relief.”

On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his $5.8 trillion budget request for the 2023 fiscal year. Several of Biden’s larger proposals have been left out of the 2023 budget, including mass student loan forgiveness and free college. Still, while the budget request will be going through a lengthy negotiation process,…

NEW YORK — Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city Education Department officials said Friday, revealing what could be the largest-ever breach of K-12 student…

Federal student loan payments have been on pause since the pandemic began. That may soon end.

Education Department tells federal student loan servicers not to send repayment notices, according to reports

More people are opting to homeschool according to the NSW education department, who said most students who had not returned had "underlying health conditions".