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Student loan forgiveness is a rallying cry from the progressives on the political Left, and it appears that the Biden administration heeded their base’s call. The Department of Education said it will cancel student loans for almost 16,000 borrowers who attended specific for-profit schools, such as DeVry University. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said, “The Department […]

The Biden administration warned five states about statewide bans on mask mandates, which demonstrates the administration’s insistence that mask mandates will eventually keep people virus-free. The Department of Education, headed by Miguel Cardona, notified Oklahoma, Iowa, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah that their mask mandate bans could violate federal discrimination laws. Acting assistant secretary for […]

Perhaps the risk of being called heartless is making them headless.

The president just expanded the U. S. Department of Education by executive order.

Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College in Michigan is looking for a way to put morality back into America’s classrooms, a goal he believes the Department of Education has abandoned.

Somehow, in recent years, the simple question “What is a woman?” is confusing liberals and leftists alike. One of the most memorable non-answers was Ketanji Brown Jackson, who said during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, that she could not answer the question about gender because she was not a biologist. Now it was Biden’s Education […]

Last week, House Republicans announced they will investigate the alleged misuse of coronavirus pandemic education funds, and as a part of their investigation, the lawmakers requested documents from the Department of Education to verify the use of federal education funds. The Hill reported that the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman, James Comer (R-Kentucky), […]

Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona recently praised the Biden administration’s budget proposal, which will go before Congress for consideration. Although Biden’s budget will not likely pass with a Republican-majority House of Representatives, budget proposals are a formality and part of the federal budgeting process. The political reality facing the Biden administration did not deter Cardona […]

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who narrowly defeated Republican nominee Kari Lake last fall, made it clear in her first State of the State address that public education will be her primary focus during her tenure. Now, rubber meets the road as Hobbs vetoed the state legislature’s budget over disagreements on education funding. Although the […]

Newly-elected Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Trump White House press secretary, announced plans to hire a Florida education official to reform education in Arkansas. Jacob Oliva, currently the senior chancellor at Florida’s Department of Education, has served in the state education agency since 2017. Sanders […]

Missouri’s education department announced it plans on proposing a salary increase for teachers through the state by using the state’s surplus to fund the proposal. Fox 2 News in Missouri reported the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) asked the state legislature to consider their proposal because the state is sitting on a billion-dollar […]

The verdict is in: school shutdowns and virtual classes led to the worst decline in student test scores in reading and math in decades. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) studied the effect of the pandemic on reading and math skills and discovered shocking results. As Fox News reported, the scores were a drastic […]