DeVry University, ITT Technical Institute, and Minnesota School of Business/Globe University misled thousands of students, the Education Department said on Wednesday as it announced it will nullify $415 million in student debt. The agency said that it intends to force the private for-profit DeVry University to cover the cost of the $71.7 million in loan…

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has criticised the federal government for failing to provide education funding, alleging that students graduating from Australia’s public schools in 2029 will never have the education funded at the level that the Commonwealth and states say they should. The AEU said in a statement on Jan. 17  that if the Morrison…

Three conservative groups are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to intervene in litigation aimed at making the Biden administration adhere to a Trump administration rule that guaranteed students accused of sexual improprieties procedural safeguards in administrative proceedings. The case, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) v. Victim Rights Law Center, court file…

The White House said that it was a mistake to promote an activist handbook that included critical race theory (CRT) in schools. “The Department does not endorse the recommendations of this group, nor do they reflect our policy positions,” the Department of Education (DOE) said in a statement, referring to a book from the Abolitionist Teaching…

Reps. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) and Fred Keller (R-Pa.) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would hold accountable colleges and universities that fail to accurately report their foreign donations to the federal government. The Requiring Education Providers to Observe Requirements or Trigger Fines Act, or REPORT Fines Act, would establish a three-strike system of penalties ranging from…

Thirty-seven Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday penned a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging him to remove the “1619 Project” from federal grant programs, arguing it skews American history for divisive political ends. “Our nation’s youth do not need activist indoctrination that fixates solely on past flaws and…

The Biden administration is seeking to prioritize funding education programs that incorporate the ideas of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi into their teaching of U.S history and civics. In a proposed new rule released April 19, the Education Department outlined new priority criteria for a $5.3 million…

The U.S. Department of Education has reversed a Trump-era decision that declared race-based “affinity groups” at public schools to be discriminatory, according to the New York Post. After a whistleblower teacher’s complaint from the Evanston-Skokie School District in Illinois, the Trump Administration’s Education Department in 2019 launched an investigation into the district’s practice of dividing…

The Arizona Department of Education is providing teachers and parents with an “equity and diversity toolkit” that aims to show how racism can manifest in children as young as three months old, and that white children “remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness” by the age of five. According to the department’s website, the toolkit…