To sustain its higher education takeover, Florida launched its own accreditor to protect legislative interference.

Elaine Harris Spearman, Esq., a Gadsden native, is an attorney and is the retired legal advisor to the comptroller of the ...

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What Linda McMahon dismisses as 'micromanagement' is, in reality, the implementation of our nation's special education law.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Education is in the early stages of recruiting another agency to help oversee federal special education programs, a spokeswoman said. The potential transfer of ...

Protesters gather during a demonstration at the headquarters of the Department of Education on March 14, 2025, in Washington.

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s ...

The Georgia congresswoman strove to be both the ultimate Trump warrior and to be taken seriously. She wound up in political ...

In another chaotic meeting on Aug. 28, the Chicago Board of Education adopted an FY26 budget, just days before the legal deadline. It’s good that the district didn’t have to shut down, and that the ...

A new deal to end the government shutdown may briefly restore staff to U.S. Education Department offices that had been gutted ...

Of the $29.5 million that Gov. J.B. Pritzker is holding in reserve, the largest portion, $12.9 million, is earmarked for the ...