Education

The Trump administration announced a dramatic funding cut on Friday, saying it would cut federal grants and contracts worth $400 million from Columbia University for “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”

California joined seven other Democratic states in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration.

While some see the Department of Education as vital to ensure education access and quality, others say it’s a bureaucracy that must be abolished.

The Department of Justice on Wednesday launched an investigation into the University of California under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. 

Starting Tuesday, students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will be banned from using all “smart devices” on school campuses. Brittany Hope reports for NBC4 at 11 a.m. on Feb. 18, 2025.

Starting Tuesday, students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will be banned from using cell phones on campus.

Here is a look at some of the department’s key functions, and how Trump has said he might approach them.

Efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle the Education Department are underway. Here’s what it could mean for students.

It’s unclear to what degree the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences will continue to exist after Musk’s team slashed scores of contracts.

The Department of Education took another step Tuesday in advancing the Trump administration’s new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”

During a staff-wide meeting Wednesday, leaders of the Department of Education told employees that the Trump administration’s resignation offer comes with major caveats.

A study conducted by researchers at Stony Brook University found teenagers spend an average of 90 minutes a day on their phones during school.

With the Trump administration looking for ways to close parts or all of the U.S. Department of Education, many of the country’s 42 million federal student loan borrowers are likely feeling on edge.

The Los Angeles Unified School District received slightly below average marks on its 2024 report card as the district battles ongoing funding, employment and legal issues alongside new potential threats of student deportation. The Nations Report Card (NAEP) is a biannual educational assessment distributed to both public and private schools across the country. The exam measures both 4th and 8th…

A letter to the affected employees obtained by NBC News said they would continue to receive their full salaries and benefits and would not be required to do any work-related tasks.

The Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) will not “assist or engage in immigration compliance checks, immigration enforcement activity, or ICE related task force operations,” the agency said in a statement Tuesday night. The LASPD added it is their primary student ensure every student has the right to attend school, regardless of “disability, gender, gender identity, nationality, race or ethnicity,…

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Wednesday that would prioritize and free up federal funding to expand school choice programs.

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organizations that track the removal of books from schools and libraries are denouncing last week’s Department of Education announcement that calls bans a “hoax.”

At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a new report Friday.