The Education Department is trying to use the government shutdown to further push for its own elimination. From an effort to lay off almost 500 more employees to messaging from Secretary Linda McMahon ...

Announced layoffs threatening to decimate a weakened US Education Department are stoking fears among special education advocates, families, and school leaders over the potential fallout for more than ...

About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement. By Sarah Mervosh Michael C.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union ...

This story was updated to reflect there are three seats up for election this fall. Voters will choose from five candidates, including two incumbents, for three seats on the Westerville Board of ...

MORNING STARTING AT 430. A MILWAUKEE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER GOT A BIG HONOR TODAY. IT WAS ONE THAT HE DEFINITELY WAS NOT EXPECTING. MICHAEL DRISCOLL IS AN INDUSTRIAL TECH TEACHER AT BAY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL.

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (WGN) — The Valley View Council and Valley View Board of Education have reached a tentative agreement for staff and averted a strike. A potential strike had been planned for next week ...

Children from across the globe have expressed support for expanding an international human rights treaty to require countries to provide free pre-primary and secondary education. More than 8,000 ...

Today’s fiction may be corrupting the morals of youth—but not for the reason most people think. It is not the sex, says Novelist J. B. Priestley in the New Statesman and Nation, it’s the sadism. In ...

Section 1. Background. Although the Supreme Court of the United States has definitively held that consideration of race in higher education admissions violates students’ civil rights, the persistent ...

As the 2024-25 chair of the National Governors Association, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, selected K-12 education as the priority of the NGA’s yearlong initiative. Titled “Let’s Get Ready! Educating all ...

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