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Libsack says she's now feeling "hopeful" because her government finally listened. "For me, as a teacher, it's awesome," she says, "because then I can convey that to the students and say, 'Hey, you do have a voice. You are citizens. You do have a role in o

Teachers Begin To See Unfair Student Loans Disappear

10:06pm May 03, 2019

The Department of Education is expanding a fix to its troubled TEACH Grant program, giving millions of dollars of grant money back to public school teachers working in the country's neediest schools.

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School Where Student With Autism Died Violated State Regulations, Officials Say

9:57pm December 09, 2018

by Cat Schuknecht

The 13-year-old died two days after he was physically restrained by a staff member at a private school that provides special education services to students in California.

Students and grads cross a rickety bridge.

Exclusive: Ed Department To Erase Debts Of Teachers, Fix Troubled Grant Program

7:55pm December 09, 2018

The move follows an NPR investigation that found thousands of teachers had grants unfairly converted to loans.

For-Profit College Chain, Education Corporation of America, Announces Shutdown

6:05pm December 06, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

ECA has been mired in financial troubles and on Wednesday officials said most of its campuses will close by the end of the month. The decision leaves about 20,000 students in the lurch.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faces a new lawsuit filed on Tuesday. It alleges the Dept. of Education has failed to comply with the Borrowers Defense rule, a student loan forgiveness program that would automatically cancel debt for borrowers whose schoo

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Betsy DeVos Sued For Failing To Implement Automatic Student Loan Forgiveness

7:45pm November 14, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

A new lawsuit claims tens of thousands of borrowers are still waiting for the Department of Education to erase their debt — about $250 million — as it was ordered to do last month.

An illustration of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

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New Education Budget; Yale Discrimination Investigation; Faults In Loan Forgiveness

12:26pm September 29, 2018

Also in our weekly education news roundup: 6 ways to talk to your kids about sex after Kavanaugh; Homeschooling is growing and changing rapidly

Senators To DeVos On TEACH Grant Debacle: 'Urgent That These Mistakes Are Fixed'

11:38am July 02, 2018

New documents obtained by NPR show that nearly 11,000 TEACH recipients may have lost their grants because of mistakes by the loan servicer, but only a small fraction of the problems were ever fixed.

Kaitlyn McCollum teaches at Columbia Central High School in Tennessee. After being told her TEACH grant paperwork was late, her grants were converted to loans. "I'm on the phone in between classes ... trying to get all of this information together, crying

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Education Department Launches 'Top-To-Bottom' Review Of Teachers' Grant Program

1:05pm May 22, 2018

Public school teachers across the country say they've been improperly hit with thousands of dollars in debt when paperwork errors turned their grants into loans that they're now supposed to pay back.

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks to graduates at Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Fla. For much of the address, she struggled to speak over boos and shouts from the crowd.

WATCH: Betsy DeVos Speaks Over Torrent Of Boos During Bethune-Cookman Speech

6:48pm May 10, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The lightning-rod secretary of education delivered her commencement address to the historically black university despite turned backs and loud shouts of "go home" from some graduates in the crowd.

What Former Employees Say ITT Tech Did To Scam Its Students

1:25pm December 07, 2016

by Rowan Moore-Gerety

Here are the accounts from several former employees and students about what happened behind closed doors at ITT Tech to lure students into expensive loans that rarely paid off.