DeVos: Families Could Use Federal Funds Elsewhere If Pandemic Closes Schools

Reuters
July 9, 2020 11:24 AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will not cut federal education spending but could allow families to use funds elsewhere if their school does not open amid the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. education secretary said on Thursday, a day after Trump threatened to cut funding.

DOE Investigating Anti-Israel Events at UNC, Duke

Schools took $235,000 in federal grants

Adam Kredo
June 18, 2019 1:25 PM

The Education Department has informed Congress that it is launching an investigation into how $235,000 in federal grants were used to fund a series of anti-Israel events that featured speakers and events tied to Palestinian terror groups organized by Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

China Infiltrating U.S. Education System in Propaganda Coup

Report: From kindergarten to college, Chinese government programs indoctrinate youth

Chinese language teacher Fu Yongsheng at the Confucius Institute at the University of Lagos

Adam Kredo
February 27, 2019 5:00 PM

The Chinese government has infiltrated nearly every sector of the U.S. education system via a package of programs and monetary schemes that seek to indoctrinate American children and bring the Communist government's propaganda into the classroom, according to a new report by a Senate investigatory body.

GOP Presses Education Dept. on University Links to Chinese Telecoms Companies

'Chinese government trying to infiltrate our institutions, steal intellectual property'

Natalie Johnson
October 3, 2018 5:00 AM

Nearly a dozen Republican lawmakers are urging the Department of Education to release a comprehensive list of institutions involved in any partnership with Chinese technology giant Huawei amid national security concerns.

MSNBC Contributor: Teachers Might Shoot Minority Students if They’re Allowed to Carry Guns

Paul Crookston
August 23, 2018 12:31 PM

White House Unveils Outline of Plan to Merge Labor, Education Departments

Cameron Cawthorne
June 21, 2018 4:18 PM

The White House on Thursday announced its plan to merge the Departments of Labor and Education into a single Cabinet agency in order to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and streamline overlapping regulations and department functions.

Conservative Leaders to DeVos: Rescind Obama Discipline Policy

Group says 'disparate impact' rule goes too far

Charles Fain Lehman
June 13, 2018 3:05 PM

A group of leaders of conservative research centers on Tuesday called on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to rescind a controversial Obama-era school discipline policy, saying it violates federal law.

Study: Catholic Schools Teach Self-Discipline

Students out-perform peers on measures of self-control, 'acting out'

Charles Fain Lehman
June 4, 2018 2:40 PM

Catholic schools may better inculcate values of self-control in young children, a new study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute suggests.

Overheard on Acela: Teachers’ Union President Plots to Shut Puerto Rico Schools From First Class Car

'We never use the word strike … we should be careful about the words we use'

Elizabeth Harrington
April 16, 2018 5:00 AM

Teachers' union president Randi Weingarten is plotting a teachers' strike to shut down schools in Puerto Rico, according to a conversation overheard Friday in the first-class car of an Acela train heading to New York.

Education Union DeVostated

New contract would create opt-in union membership, eliminate taxpayer-funded union perks

Bill McMorris
March 15, 2018 3:30 PM

The union representing Department of Education bureaucrats is crying foul after the agency constrained union privileges following months of delays in negotiation.