President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program continues to face scrutiny. While a Supreme Court decision about Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan awaits, lawmakers were expected on May 24 to vote on a resolution to stop the program and end the pandemic-related pause on federal student loan payments. On the morning of May 24, the…

Half of the nation’s governors are asking the Biden administration to either withdraw or delay a proposed rule aimed at preventing schools from barring biological males from participating in female athletics programs. Led by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, 25 Republican governors submitted a joint comment on May 11 to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona opposing his…

Average U.S. history and civics test scores have dropped among eighth graders since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The 2022 findings from the NAEP—dubbed “The Nation’s Report Card”—were released on May 3, revealing a five-point drop in U.S. history scores and a two-point drop—the first ever—in civics scores…

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and the House Judiciary Committee expect full cooperation from the Department of Justices (DOJ) during their investigation into the agency’s treatment of parental school board protests in 2021. Jordan, who chairs the committee, said he expects the DOJ to comply fully with the panel’s subpoena sent to several high-ranking members of…

A Biden administration proposed rewrite of the landmark Title IX ban on discrimination in public school classrooms and athletic fields will repeal five decades of women’s progress in education and subject female athletes to physical injury and sexual assault, according to a coalition of 17 Republican state attorneys general. In a withering 37-page critique of…