by Beth Holmes | Jun 21, 2021 | News, Other
While student debt looks to be one of the peak issues of the current political field, school debt also ought to be part of the conversation. More than 1,200 colleges, most of them privately owned, for-profit schools, owe money to the federal Department of Education....
by Supporting Education | Jul 20, 2020 | News
The fight has been going on since 2015, when Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a suit against the Department of Education to cease collection on the student loans paid out to Everest Institute on behalf of 7,200 students, in light of the Institute’s...
by Sarah Green | Nov 15, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
How is America doing, educationally? Last week, the U.S. Department of Education released the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), or the Nation’s Report Card. So what’s the verdict? Things are getting better, slowly. “The 2013 NAEP report card...
by Supporting Education | Dec 20, 2012 | News
If you had $40 million to spend toward education, how would you spend it? That’s the big question for seven school districts in King County, which have just recently won a $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Three years ago Seattle Public Schools...
