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A petition circulated online wants President Trump to replace his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with NBA athlete LeBron James.

Thanks, leftists? U.S. Marshals are protecting Trump’s Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos due to credible threats, which costs taxpayers $1 million per month.

George Leef writes that at least 580,000 students, whose schools were accredited by the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), face the reality that their school could no longer receive federal funding. ACICS has seen its accreditation revoked by the Obama Department of Education after forcing ITT Tech to close their doors.

This from the College Fix: In a news release today, the department said it reached an agreement with Delaware’s Wesley College intended to “equitably address” sexual misconduct for both accusers and accused. OCR chief Catherine Lhamon said Wesley will work on “promoting processes all students can believe in to protect their rights.” A complaint filed “on behalf of” […]

George Leef at the Pope Center said the following about the Department of Education’s overreach in their sanctions of ITT Tech, a longtime vocational school: On September 6, ITT announced that it was closing its 130 campuses located in 38 states. The company had come under fire from several state attorneys general and the Consumer […]

This from the College Fix: The evangelical university joined an existing lawsuit coordinated by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on behalf of a University of Virginia law student, who was banned for life from the school based on rape allegations that barely met the “more likely than not” preponderance standard imposed by the feds. […]

As Campus Reform reported, “An open letter released Monday by 21 prominent law professors warns that the Department of Education’s sexual harassment directives are undermining both free speech and due process.”

The government shutdown now in its 14th day has led to a wide range of reductions in force (RIF) with the Department of Education taking some of the largest hits to its staff. The 466 RIFs have brought the DOE’s employment to under 2,000, or less than half of where it stood before President Trump […]

President Trump who as attacked Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies in public education had thrown his support behind an effort by a Long Island, NY school district’s battle to keep their mascots after the State Education Department banned Native American mascots and imagery. If the schools don’t comply, they risk losing state funding. This is […]

According to a new report from Parents Defending Education (PDE) the U.S. Department of Education spent at least $1 billion on grants to fund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training in schools since 2021.

The Biden administration’s plan to forgive over $500 billion in student loan debt is beginning to roll out through a website test, which website will allow borrowers to apply for student loan debt cancelation. This “beta test,” which refers to the initial testing phase of the website, is the first step towards forgiving student loan […]

Brigham Young University (BYU), a private religious university in Provo, Utah, received fortuitous news that Biden’s Department of Education dismissed a civil rights complaint filed over the university’s dating standards from March 2020. The two-years-long investigation came from LGBTQIA+ students at BYU who complained that the university’s emphasis on heterosexual dating and the prohibition of […]