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The U.S. Education Department's Office of Federal Student Aid administers the sprawling federal student loan portfolio.

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The future of student loan repayment, explained

A Republican overhaul would reduce borrowers' repayments options from several plans to just two.

May 12, 2025
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  • Cory Turner

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  • Education

State shifts control over charter school approvals

Educators who want to open a charter school will have an expedited process under new rules adopted by the state school board Thursday.

May 09, 2025
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  • Capitol Beat News Service
Muscatine Community College students in Iowa may get to pursue bachelor's degrees. From left: Jake Siefers is majoring in psychology, Elexiana Oliva is majoring in criminal justice, Shiloh Morter plans to become an engineer and Jaylea Perez is pursuing psychology.

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More states are allowing community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees

Diminishing access to four-year universities and majors has been holding rural students back. Community colleges say they can bridge the gap.

May 08, 2025
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  • Jon Marcus
Kellen and his classmates, including his best friend, Nolan Robbins (left), learn about the structure of the U.S. government with teacher Robyn Fox.

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  • Education

On Teacher Appreciation Week, union leaders say teachers are underpaid and under attack

The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.

May 08, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie

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  • Education

Deadline Extended: NPR Student Podcast Challenge entries are now due May 25

Entries for our seventh annual contest for fourth grade podcasters, and middle and high school students are now due Sunday, May 25 at midnight E.T.

May 07, 2025
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  • Janet W. Lee and
  • Steve Drummond

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  • Education

Are you expected to start repaying your defaulted student loans? NPR wants to know

How will having to start repaying your student loans affect your financial situation? Tell us about your experience, and we may be in touch for an upcoming story on Morning Edition.

May 02, 2025
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  • Ben Abrams
People gather to take photos with the John Harvard statue at Harvard University. President Trump made another threat to Harvard's tax-exempt status in a social media post on Friday.

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Trump again threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status, saying, 'It's what they deserve!'

Trump's comments on social media marked the latest volley in a battle between the administration and the wealthiest college in the world.

May 02, 2025
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Demonstrators protesting a bill that would've allowed schools to deny students based on immigration status at the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville.

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Republicans say they will still push education based on legal status

The Tennessee Legislature aimed to challenge a 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that established a right to education for all students. Republican lawmakers still hope to overturn that.

May 01, 2025
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  • Marianna Bacallao
The U.S. Supreme Court appears open to allowing religious charter schools, a move that would upend laws governing charters around the country.

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Supreme Court seems poised to require state-funded charter schools to include religious schools

The case is from Oklahoma, which like 45 other states, has laws that say charter schools must be public schools funded by the state, closely supervised by the state, and be non-sectarian.

May 01, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Department of Education is telling impacted districts that the Biden administration, in awarding the grants, violated "the letter or purpose of Federal civil rights law."

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  • Education

Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health

Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

May 01, 2025
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  • Cory Turner
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Can charter schools be religious? If so, what does that mean for public education?

The case could transform public education in the United States.

April 30, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg
Concept of financial literacy and education. Human hand and graduation cap with dollar sign. Collage.

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  • Education

Republicans plan to overhaul the federal student loan system. Here's what to know

The Republican proposal would eliminate Grad PLUS loans, set strict limits on Parent PLUS loans and create a system in which colleges would be on the hook if their students don't repay their loans.

April 30, 2025
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  • Cory Turner
A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University, at rear, on April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.

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Harvard pledges reforms following internal reports on antisemitism and anti-Arab bias

The university's president convened two panels to study campus antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias last year. Harvard said it will begin implementing at least some of the reports' recommendations.

April 29, 2025
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The U.S. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court to hear school disability discrimination case

At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specialized help?

April 29, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg
President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon, have said repeatedly that they want to send education "back to the states." But in recent lawsuits, the administration is accused of doing the opposite: wielding the power of the federal government to tell schools what they can and cannot teach.<br>

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  • Education

Why judges blocked the Trump admin's school DEI crackdown

On Thursday, three federal judges in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., said Trump's anti-DEI efforts were on shaky legal ground.

April 26, 2025
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  • Cory Turner
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