Federal Education News
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Pence to Critics of Wife’s New Job: ‘Attacking Christian Education Is Deeply Offensive’
Vice President Pence responded to critics questioning his wife’s new job teaching at a school that prohibits LGBT students and…
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DeVos in Wheelchair after Breaking her Pelvis and Hip Socket in Bicycle Mishap
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is recovering in a wheelchair from a recent bicycling accident, calling the ordeal “very painful.”
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US Department of Ed to Crack Down on ‘Inappropriate’ Use of Restraint of Students with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Education is launching a wide-ranging initiative to “address the possible inappropriate use of restraint and seclusion”…
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School Breakfast, Lunch to Be Funded ‘Well into March,’ USDA Says
The partial federal shutdown may be ongoing, but federal support of school breakfast and lunch is available "well into March,"…
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Bloomberg News Criticizes Easing of Federal School Lunch Guidelines as a Giveaway to Dairy Interests
The American lunchroom war has taken another turn.
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Feds to Investigate MT District Accused of Discriminating against Native American Students
A year and a half after receiving a detailed complaint from tribal leaders, the U.S. Department of Education plans to…
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More School Districts Say They Are Meeting FCC’s Internet Connectivity Goals
In surveying nearly 400 school districts, the Washington D.C.-based association shows in its 2018-19 report that 69 percent of school…
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Treasury: Corporations’ Donations to Private School Choice Programs Will Continue to Be Tax-Deductible
The IRS had proposed limiting the federal deduction of contributions made to charitable organizations in an attempt by the White…
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Trump Administration Officially Revokes Obama-Era Policy on School Discipline
Education Department officials say the policy was withdrawn Friday at the recommendation of President Donald Trump’s school safety commission.
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How Montana’s Ruling against Tax-Credit Scholarships Could Push SCOTUS to Revisit the Religious Schools Issue
Judges in Montana overturned the state’s tax-credit scholarship program as a violation of the state’s ban on funding religious schools,…
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Lamar Alexander’s Retirement to Shift Education Policy Landscape on Capitol Hill
A former governor, university president and Education secretary, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has unprecedented education experience for a senator. His…
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Federal Report: Only 18% of ‘Innovations’ Funded by Education Department Had Positive Impact on Student Achievement
Only 12 of the 67 innovations, or 18 percent, were found to have any positive impact on student achievement, according…
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Disability Advocates Denounce Federal School Safety Panel’s Plan to Axe School Discipline Guidance
Disability advocates were quick to denounce the panel’s move and urge DeVos to retain the Obama-era approach.
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Federal School Safety Panel Releases Recommendations: Scrap Obama-Era School Discipline Policies
The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined,…
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Surgeon General Urges Restrictions on Vaping to Combat Youth E-Cigarette Use
The move by Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams comes a day after the National Institute for Drug Abuse issued new…
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Senator Lamar Alexander, Top Capitol Hill Republican on Education, to Retire
Alexander, the chairman of the Senate education committee, was a chief architect of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the law…
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Federal Study Finds Vaping Is Surging among High School Students at Record Rates
More than a third of high school seniors in America reportedly vaped at least once in 2018, a new government-funded…
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Federal School Safety Commission to Recommend Revoking Obama-Era School Discipline Policy
The recommendation to rescind the Obama administration’s guidance to schools over discipline will be the report’s most concrete element, a…
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USDOE to Erase Debts of Teachers If They Participated in Federal Grant Program and Made Filing Errors
The source of the trouble for these teachers boils down to one word: paperwork.
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Trump Administration Relaxes School Lunch Rules, Puts Refined Grains, Low-Fat Chocolate Milk Back on Menu
The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one that required only…
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Revenues and Expenditures for K-12 Education Increase for the Third Year in a Row, Report Shows
This First Look report introduces new data for national and state-level public elementary and secondary revenues and expenditures for fiscal…
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White House Announces Five-Year Strategic Plan for STEM Education
The plan, which looks across the federal government’s entire $3-billion investment in STEM education by more than a dozen agencies,…
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President George H.W. Bush Was an ‘Education Pioneer,’ Says Former His Ed Secretary, Senator Lamar Alexander
Even as it’s President George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy chops that he’s most remembered by, Bush was also a pioneer…
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U.S. Department of Education Reopening Hundreds of Disability-Related Complaints
The U.S. Department of Education is reversing course after being sued over changes to its handling of disability discrimination complaints…
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How George H.W. Bush Laid the Foundation for Education Reform
George H.W. Bush fulfilled his desire – articulated late in his 1988 campaign for president – to be “the education…
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