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News Articles: U.S. Education Department

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  • Education

Millions of borrowers in Biden's SAVE plan would start paying under new settlement

Legal challenges put SAVE borrowers in limbo for months, a time during which they were not required to make payments on their loans. That would change if the proposed settlement is approved.

December 09, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
<strong>Left:</strong> Ed Martin was one of the authors of the law now known as IDEA. Before the law, children with disabilities were often turned away from public schools. "They were invisible," says Martin. <strong>Right:</strong> Maggie Heilman and her daughter, Brooklynn, 14, at their home in a Kansas City suburb. Brooklynn has Down syndrome and her own special education plan thanks to IDEA.

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  • Education

50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff members who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.

December 03, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has said she wants to "peel back the layers of federal bureaucracy."

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  • Education

Trump administration shares new moves to dismantle more of the Education Department

Opponents of the changes say Congress explicitly located some of these offices inside the Education Department, and the White House cannot legally move their work without Congress' approval.

November 18, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, D.C., in December 2024.

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  • Education

Federal special education staff may get their jobs back. But for how long?

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

November 13, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
The Washington headquarters of the Department of Education on March 12. A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office notifications with partisan language.

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  • Education

Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies.

November 08, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program was created by Congress in 2007 to cancel the federal student loan debts of borrowers who spend a decade working in public service.

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  • Education

Public workers could be denied loan forgiveness if cities defy Trump, lawsuit alleges

A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations have resisted President Trump's policies.

November 03, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
A person walks past the U.S. Department of Education  in Washington, D.C.

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  • Education

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

October 14, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner

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  • Education

The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

October 07, 2025
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By:
  • Carmela Guaglianone
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon at a Senate subcommittee in June.

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  • Education

U.S. Education Dept. unites conservative groups to create 'patriotic' civics content

The group of more than 40 conservative organizations met for the first time on Wednesday. The initiative is aimed at celebrations of the nation's founding next summer.

September 17, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo
The entrance of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters building in Washington, D.C.

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  • Education

How the Education Department is using civil rights laws to bring schools to heel

The Trump administration is using decades-old laws, meant to prevent discrimination, to threaten school districts and states with cuts to vital federal funding.

September 04, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner

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  • Education

Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here's what they did

Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

August 01, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
The largest pot of grant money frozen by the Trump administration consisted of roughly $2.2 billion for professional development for educators.

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  • Education

Education Department says it's releasing more than $5 billion in frozen grants

The grants fund a wide range of education programs, including migrant education, services for English language learners and adult education.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo
Statue of Atlas holding giant gaduate cap. Student loan problems, expensive education concept. Vector illustration.

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  • Education

What borrowers should know about student loan changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill

Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.

July 24, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
The Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education shown in March.

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  • Education

Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the Education Department can continue

The Trump administration had appealed a decision that had directed it to stop gutting the U.S. Education Department and to reinstate many of the workers the government had laid off.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
A teacher gives a tour of Nora Sterry Elementary School to students in Los Angeles in January. California is one of 24 states suing the Trump administration over frozen education grant funding.

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  • Education

24 states sue Trump admin to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants

The lawsuit comes two weeks after the Trump administration first notified states it was withholding previously approved funds for migrant education, before- and after- school programs and more.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo
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