Inspecting claim Education Department stopped counting nursing, other programs as 'professional degrees'

The department's proposal may impact how much money student loan borrowers can receive depending on the graduate degree they ...

Federal push to break up US Department of Education raises questions among school leaders, policymakers

This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced agreements to shift a number of functions within the department to four ...
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'DEI needs to go': Education Department launches 'END DEI' website

The Department of Education launched a first-of-its-kind website, "EndDEI.Ed.Gov," just hours before a deadline warning institutions to end discrimination or they will be subject to federal ...
NBC Connecticut

Federal student loan website down after layoffs gutted Education Department

An hours-long outage Wednesday on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education, as President ...
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Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce

The US Education Department announced Tuesday that it is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the agency altogether. Hundreds will be laid off ...
Black Enterprise

FAFSA Site Sees Outage Amid Mass Education Department Layoff

The FAFSA outage comes one day after the Department of Education announced it fired more than 1,300 people — or nearly half of its workforce. There was a massive outage on the website students ...