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In this March 17, 2021, photo, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The Education Department is taking the next step to revise federal rules around campus sexual assault, paving the way for an overhaul of a polarizing Trump-era policy that President Joe Biden has vowed to reverse. A Tuesday letter from the department says it will formally begin the process to amend federal rules around Title IX, the federal law that forbids sexual discrimination in education. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Education Department moves to unravel Trump-era rule on campus sexual assault cases

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 17, 2021, file photo, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The Education Department is taking the next step to revise federal rules around campus sexual assault, paving the way for an overhaul of a polarizing Trump-era policy that President Joe Biden has vowed to reverse. A Tuesday letter from the department says it will formally begin the process to amend federal rules around Title IX, the federal law that forbids sexual discrimination in education. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Education Department reviewing campus sex assault rules

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo Education Secretary Betsy DeVos arrives for an event in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington. As millions of American children start the school year online, the Trump administration is hoping to convert their parents’ frustration and anger into newfound support for school choice policies that DeVos has long championed but struggled to advance nationally. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Betsy DeVos resigns as education secretary over Capitol riots: Report

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

In farewell, DeVos urges Congress to reject Biden’s policies

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020 file photo, Connecticut State Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with Berlin High School students while on a tour of the school. President-elect Joe Biden has chosen the education commissioner for Connecticut and a former public school teacher to serve as education secretary. (Devin Leith-Yessian/Berlin Citizen/Record-Journal via AP)

Biden: Cardona right pick to lead education through pandemic

By COLLIN BINKLEY and ALEXANDRA JAFFE and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

President-elect Joe Biden fist bumps with nurse practitioner Tabe Mase after receiving his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, as Jill Biden looks on. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden picks Connecticut schools chief as education secretary

By COLLIN BINKLEY and ALEXANDRA JAFFE and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. DeVos has extended the moratorium on student loan payments and the accrual of interest until Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Betsy DeVos urges Education Department employees to ‘resist’ Biden administration

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. DeVos has extended the moratorium on student loan payments and the accrual of interest until Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

DeVos suspends student federal loan payments through January

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo Education Secretary Betsy DeVos arrives for an event in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington. As millions of American children start the school year online, the Trump administration is hoping to convert their parents’ frustration and anger into newfound support for school choice policies that DeVos has long championed but struggled to advance nationally. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Betsy DeVos blasts free college push: ‘Socialist takeover of higher education’

By Collin Binkley - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. In a veiled swing at President-elect Joe Biden's education plans DeVos on Tuesday, Dec. 1, blasted the push for free college as a “socialist takeover of higher education” that could damage the nation's economy. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

DeVos says free college amounts to a ‘socialist takeover’

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Speculation has begun on who a Biden-Harris administration will pick to replace Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

For-profit schools losing influential Education Department friends after election

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

Committee Chairman James Clyburn, D-S.C., talks as Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar testifies to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. (Michael A. McCoy/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Clyburn asks federal officials to probe SC gov grant program

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

Nevada joins federal lawsuit against campus Title IX changes

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In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo Education Secretary Betsy DeVos arrives for an event in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington. As millions of American children start the school year online, the Trump administration is hoping to convert their parents’ frustration and anger into newfound support for school choice policies that DeVos has long championed but struggled to advance nationally. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump, DeVos raise school choice in appeal to vexed parents

By Collin Binkley - Associated Press

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the Department of Education building Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Betsy DeVos: Nothing in data suggests going back to school is dangerous for kids

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens during a &quot;National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America's Schools,&quot; event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump calls CDC guidelines on school reopenings ‘impractical,’ threatens to withhold funding

By Gabriella Muñoz and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Students wearing face masks to protect against the new coronavirus have their documents checked by security officers before the first day of China's national college entrance examinations, known as the gaokao, in Beijing, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. China's college entrance exams began in Beijing on Tuesday after being delayed by a month due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: New Zealand to charge patient who went shopping

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 15, 2019, file photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

States sue US department over virus relief funds for schools

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos participates in a roundtable event at Waukesha STEM Academy Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) **FILE**

Democrats fail to override Trump veto on student loan policy

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press