Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Throughout his campaign, he depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left.

President Biden announced the milestone Thursday, saying his administration restored a promise to America’s teachers, firefighters, nurses and other public servants.

The bungled rollout of a new federal student aid form has left millions of students in limbo and some wondering if their college dreams will survive.

Claudine Gay said she got caught up in a heated exchange during congressional testimony and failed to properly denounce threats of violence against Jewish students.

The president directed the Education Department to find another path to loan relief after the Supreme Court ruled that he couldn’t cancel loans using a 2003 law called the HEROES Act.

Math and reading scores among America’s 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded.

School support staffers earn, on average, about $25,000 a year in L.A., not enough to get by in one of the most expensive cities in America.

What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after returning to in-person classes, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse.

The federal government now offers four types of income-driven loan repayment plans, but the proposal would mostly phase out three of them while focusing on one simplified option.

Traditionally nonpartisan, local school boards have become fiercely political amid entrenched battles over the teaching of race, history and sexuality.

The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it erased decades of academic progress and widened racial disparities in education.

Interest rates will remain at 0% during that period. The moratorium applies to more than 36 million Americans who have student loans that are held by the federal government.

The nation’s top public health agency is not advising schools to require shots for teachers and vaccine-eligible kids, nor how teachers and parents can know who is vaccinated.

About 76% of elementary and middle schools were open for in-person or hybrid learning, while 24% offered remote learning only, according to the survey.

New evidence that it may be safe for schools to seat students 3 feet apart — half of the previous recommended distance.