When the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted, Congress committed to fund 40 percent of the average per pupil cost for special education. A half-century later, students who ...

NEA Higher Ed members are sitting on mountains of data that they assembled through federally funded research but are now cut off before sharing the findings that U.S. taxpayers paid for. Their topics ...

Just last week, Trump called the Department of Education a “con job” and said he wants McMahon to “put herself out of a job.” The nominee seems prepared to do just that, at tremendous cost to our ...

As you discuss the impact of funding cuts on individuals, especially students with disabilities and lower-income families, you will want to focus on cuts to programs like Pell Grants and Two- and Four ...

On election day, voters in Nebraska, Colorado, and Kentucky delivered a stunning rebuke to school vouchers. A diverse coalition of educators, parents, and community members in each state mobilized to ...

In a new book, “Lend & Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities,” the Coalition Against Campus Debt dives into the kind of campus debt that nobody talks about. As state ...

Project 2025 is a sweeping policy document for a second Trump administration. Among its recommendations? An end to the federal government’s student loan programs, including Parent Plus loans, ...

In 2022-23, more state legislatures adopted new or expanded school voucher laws than in any previous year. This expansion occurred despite overwhelming evidence showing voucher programs strip funds ...

Despite recent data showing a decrease in student use of e-cigarettes, too many students across the country vape daily. Vapes are extremely dangerous, and a cause for concern given their popularity ...

Between 2012 and 2024, the number of unionized faculty grew by 7.5 percent. During that same time, the number of grad-student employees in unions grew even faster, by 133 percent. A key issue for ...

The New Hampshire state law had resulted in teachers self-censoring their lessons of any reference to race or gender, afraid to cross an invisible line in their classrooms. They didn't know what they ...

Twenty-three states either still allow, or haven't officially banned, corporal punishment to discipline children in public schools. Black students are four times more likely than white students to ...