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Betsy DeVos was sworn in a year ago this month as President Trump’s secretary of education, following Senate approval by the narrowest of margins
You file a freedom of information request with your local school district concerning financial data or a personnel investigation, but months later, there’s still no answer
Education Week’s annual “Quality Counts” report offers a wealth of state-level data on students and schools, from academic indicators to equity in funding formulas
With President Trump expected to sign GOP legislation approved this week to overhaul the tax code, analysts are scrambling to unpack the complicated GOP deal, including the stakes for education
Emmanuel Felton argues that the federal government has substantially abandoned Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision which struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal” education
States across the nation are taking another look at their school accountability systems in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act, a rewrite of the main federal law for K-12 education
