The Latest Breaking News from the Education Department

Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza

Due to operational issues, the Biden administration has abandoned two important efforts to reduce student debt, depriving millions of Americans of anticipated financial aid.

Biden halts student loan cancellation initiative to prevent Trump's alterations, focusing on alternative relief measures.

Federal education officials say the Philadelphia school district failed to show it protected Jewish students from harassment despite “repeated, extensive notice” that students, teachers and administrators were engaging in antisemitic behavior

After a year of glitchy chaos, the Department of Education may have finally gotten its act together.

FAFSA form opens smoothly after delays, aiming for Dec. 1 release. Over 140,000 students tested successfully.

In her role as former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon oversaw an enterprise that popularized the “takedown” for millions of wrestling fans. But as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, the Trump loyalist may be tasked with taking down the very department Trump has asked…

President-elect Trump's plans to reform the Department of Education and its implications for federal funding and educational policies.

With only months left in his term, Biden wants to forgive the loans of nearly eight million borrowers experiencing "hardship."

Is this latest attempt at student debt forgiveness a serious policy or a pre-election ploy?

A student loan cancellation program for public workers has granted relief to more than 1 million Americans — up from just 7,000 who were approved before it was updated by the Biden administration two years ago