Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona continued to place emphasis on increasing funding of mental health services in public schools at a hearing on May 11 before the Appropriations Committee on his historically high $90 billion proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The budget represents a $10.8 billion increase and a review of it shows that…

A Republican-led panel on the House Judiciary Committee has found “no legitimate basis” for the Justice Department to use federal law enforcement to police concerned parents speaking their minds at local school board meetings. In an interim report (pdf) published on Tuesday, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government said evidence so…

Republican senators expressed “grave concern” on March 8 to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona over U.S. taxpayer-funded anti-Semitic Near East and Middle East programs on America’s college and university campuses. The letter was signed by Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Cynthia…

Along with his plans to grant student loan debt forgiveness to millions of borrowers, President Joe Biden is moving ahead with a plan to lower student loan repayments and stop their balances from growing because of an accumulation of unpaid interest. On Tuesday morning, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the Biden administration’s new student…

The Department of Education (DOE) is to “immediately and permanently” disband a five-month-old national parents council after conservative groups sued it for allegedly being unbalanced and politically biased. According to a Dec. 5 court notice (pdf), the department said it’s “immediately and permanently disbanding the [National Parents and Families Engagement Council] and that the Council…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed it will hear an emergency challenger to President Joe Biden’s student loan debt program and will keep the plan on hold. In a brief order, the high court wrote that it would hear oral arguments in February of next year. But in the interim, the Biden administration’s program…

The Biden administration’s abrupt change of course in its federal student loan debt “forgiveness” scheme is not going to help keep challengers out of court, said legal scholar GianCarlo Canaparo. “It went wrong from the very start,” Canaparo, a senior legal fellow at conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, said in an interview with NTD News….

A majority of Americans would oppose President Joe Biden’s plan to “forgive” billions of dollars of federal student loan debt if it led to higher taxes, according to a recent poll. The survey (pdf), conducted by British data company YouGov on behalf of the libertarian Cato Institute, found that 64 percent of American adults said…

American 9-year-olds suffered a dismal drop in their math and reading scores during the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest federal assessment data shows. The report released Thursday by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), popularly known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” paints a bleak picture of how decades of academic progress were erased in the…

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to pay off at least $10,000 in federal student loan debt for each borrower, despite widespread worries that the move will worsen the inflation crisis. Individuals earning less than $125,000 a year or families earning less than $250,000 will be eligible…