Schools Are Dropping Mask Requirements, But A New CDC Study Suggests They...
New research released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reinforces an old message: COVID-19 spreads less in schools where teachers and staff wear masks. Yet the study arrives as...
View ArticleAfter Months Of Special Education Turmoil, Families Say Schools Owe Them
Roughly 7 million children in the U.S. receive special education services under a decades-old federal law — or did , until the pandemic began. Many of those services slowed or stopped when schools...
View ArticleAspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College
New rules kick in today that will help aspiring teachers pay for college and complete a years-long overhaul of the federal TEACH Grant program — from a bureaucratic bear trap that hobbled thousands of...
View ArticleEducation Dept. Announces Civil Rights Investigations Into 5 States' Mask...
Updated August 30, 2021 at 8:33 PM ET The U.S. Department of Education sent a warning to five states on Monday that their statewide bans on mask mandates, including in schools, could violate students'...
View ArticleThe Stakes Feel Higher Than Ever As The Education Secretary Welcomes Students...
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona kickstarts his "Return-to-School Road Trip " this week, talking up the Biden administration's efforts to help children safely return to classrooms. The five-day...
View ArticleThe Education Secretary Plays Hardball (And A Cowbell) To Push For Safe Schools
Updated September 24, 2021 at 6:58 AM ET Miguel Cardona walks the halls of Locust Lane Elementary School in Eau Claire, Wis., with a gray mask, a crisp blue suit and the easy familiarity of a teacher...
View ArticleEducation Dept. Will Reimburse Florida District That Had Funds Held Over Mask...
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that it would send roughly $148,000 to one Florida school district, Alachua County Public Schools, reimbursing it for money that has been withheld by...
View ArticleNPR Exclusive: Troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness program will get...
A troubled student debt relief program for teachers, police officers and other public service workers will soon get the makeover that borrowers have been demanding. Next week, according to a source...
View ArticleWhat borrowers need to know about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness overhaul
Zahra Nealy was in the shower, listening to the radio, when she heard NPR reporting on Friday that the U.S. Department of Education would use its authority to help borrowers and relax the rules of the...
View ArticleStudent loan forgiveness is a lot closer for some borrowers, and they are pumped
The U.S. Department of Education has begun sending emails to thousands of teachers, nurses and other public servants to tell them they could have some of their federal student loan debts erased months...
View ArticleTop student loan official testifies on troubled loan forgiveness program
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: A quick update now on new changes to the troubled public service loan forgiveness program and what borrowers should know. Richard Cordray...
View Article4 things to know about possible changes to your student loan debt
Student borrowers, take note. In testimony before a House subcommittee , the head of the office of Federal Student Aid told lawmakers that his agency is preparing for federal student loan repayments to...
View ArticleBorrowers say they were wrongly denied loan forgiveness. Now, help is on the way
The U.S. Department of Education says it will reach out to federal student loan borrowers who may have been prematurely denied loan forgiveness under the revamped Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)...
View ArticleBiden pledged to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt. Here's what he's done...
When President- elect Joe Biden was asked whether student loan cancellation figured into his economic recovery plan, he declared, "It should be done immediately." "[Student debt is] holding people up,"...
View ArticleWhere are the students? For a second straight year, school enrollment is...
The troubling enrollment losses that school districts reported last year have in many places continued this fall, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt public education across the country, an...
View Article8 ways teachers are talking about Jan. 6 in their classrooms
Updated January 5, 2022 at 3:34 PM ET Teachers across the country face a daunting challenge this week: how to talk with students about the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S....
View ArticleThe challenges of trying to keep schools open during the omicron surge
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The rapid spread of omicron is forcing some school districts to do what seemed pretty unthinkable just a few months ago, send students home...
View ArticleNavient reaches a deal to cancel $1.7 billion in student loan debts
Updated January 13, 2022 at 4:02 PM ET The loan servicing giant Navient has agreed to cancel $1.7 billion in student loan debts owed by roughly 66,000 borrowers, as part of a settlement announced...
View ArticleThe expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else...
Blink and you could have missed it. For six months, the United States experimented with an idea that's new here but is already a backstitch in the social fabric of many wealthy nations : a monthly cash...
View ArticleSome families are being forced to choose between remote learning and school...
Joel Barron, a mother of two in Minnetonka, Minn., has a question for policymakers: "Will you look in my child's eyes when they do not have any food?" Until recently, Barron's children, ages 10 and 12,...
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