Department of Education

The Biden administration is proposing student loan relief for several more categories of borrowers in an effort to chip away at the nation’s enormous student debt problem after the Supreme Court squashed a broad plan to do so this…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday halted a rule from President Joe Biden’s administration that could make it easier to obtain student loan debt relief for borrowers who say they were victims of misleading information…

The Biden administration announced Friday that it will erase a total of $39 billion in student loan debt for 804,000 borrowers.The act is the result of fixes to the federal student loan system’s income-driven repayment plans, which cancel…

Cardona, who criticized the Supreme Court for ruling “against students and families across the country,” argued that the conservative court substituted itself for Congress before he then went after the GOP.“It’s outrageous to me that…

A Texas school district is facing an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) civil rights office after its superintendent was accused of discriminating against LGBTQIA+ students while ordering the removal of certain books…

Around 9 million people who applied for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan reportedly received emails wrongly saying their debt relief requests had been approved.The emails, sent last month by the Department of Education,…

The Department of Education on Thursday tightened eligibility criteria for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan as GOP-led states sued to block the relief.The department said those with privately owned federal student loans,…

NEW YORK: New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the nation's largest school district to return to some form of virtual instruction as the city weathers a wave of coronavirus cases, a reversal from his pledge a week ago to…

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into possible violations of disabled students’ civil rights by Florida’s ban on school mask mandates, it informed the state on Friday. The action follows lawsuits against…

Parents in a Georgia school district have filed a complaint with the Department of Education over their schools’ policy allowing students to opt out of wearing a mask in school, even as COVID-19 cases mount across the district. In a…