The Education Department reopened the application for all income-driven repayment (IDR) plans on Mar. 26, after a month-long suspension that blocked federal student loan borrowers from enrolling in an ...

Some student loan borrowers are seeing their payment plans get suspended, which means their payments are rising. This has to ...

WORCESTER — “Utterly ridiculous” is how Sophie Lee described the elimination of several academic programs at Clark University ...

On March 11, the Department of Education issued a press release announcing that it had “initiated a reduction in force impacting nearly 50 percent of the department’s workforce.” ...

Trump has also threatened to freeze all federal loans and grants, meaning that many colleges will lose access to numerous federal funds. Department officials currently claim that student loans, Pell ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced the Trump administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism has launched ...

Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 20 calling for the dismantling ...

NPR has spent the past few weeks catching up with student loan experts and asking the Trump administration for clarity on ...

Deanna Michael began researching educational policy when former President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education in ...

Fired employees gathered at the Department of Education’s headquarters, joined by advocates rallying in solidarity.

President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education was met with uncertainty from educators, parents ...

The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia and the suspension of $175 million for the ...