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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks at an event at the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

GOP to Education Dept.: Probe whether Google fellowship was discriminatory

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Palestinian flag is removed from a building by Israeli authorities after being put up by an advocacy group that promotes coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. In recent weeks, Israeli authorities have gone out of their way to challenge the hoisting of the Palestinian flag. Palestinian citizens of Israel see the campaign against the flag as another affront to their national identity and their rights as a minority in the majority Jewish state. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Office for Civil Rights to investigate antisemitism allegations at University of Vermont

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at right. The Biden administration says it will cancel any federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Westwood College from 2002 through 2015 after officials found that the school exaggerated the job prospects of graduates. The action will automatically erase $1.5 billion in federal student debt for 79,000 borrowers who attended the now-defunct college. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Shaky start for Biden’s college debt relief, loan servicers in the dark about the plan

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A 12-year-old transgender swimmer waits by a pool on Feb. 22, 2021, in Utah. Utah is asking a judge to dismiss a legal challenge to its ban on transgender kids who want to compete in youth sports. Attorneys for the state argued in July 2022 that two unnamed transgender girls lack standing to challenge the law in court, in part because they haven't been harmed by it. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Federal judge delivers blow to Biden administration’s gender-identity directives

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Students walk to their first class on the first day of school at Kernodle Middle School in Greensboro, N.C., on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. The federal government has provided $190 billion in pandemic aid to schools since March 2020. This is more than quadruple what the U.S. Education Department spends on K-12 schools in a typical year. (Woody Marshall/News &amp; Record via AP)

Parental-rights groups sue Biden administration over ‘fake’ family advisory council

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden, teachers unions and the anti-charter school crusade by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden, teachers unions and the anti-charter school crusade

By Rep. Virginia Foxx

The NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis is shown in this March 12, 2020, file photo. Fifteen GOP state attorneys general are urgining the U.S. Department of Education to abandon its plan to redefine biological sex to include gender identity under Title IX, the federal civil rights statute governing gender equality in education, warning that they would take legal action to protect state laws on parental rights in the classroom and in interscholastic sports. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) **FILE**

Fifteen states urge Biden administration to keep ‘gender identity’ out of Title IX overhaul

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, March 11, 2021, file photo, desks are arranged in an elementary school classroom in Nesquehoning, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Biden adds hurdles to federal grants for charter schools, keeps promise to teachers unions

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

In this March 11, 2020, file photo, people wear masks while walking past Wheeler Hall on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

White House considers extending student loan repayments

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This Nov. 24, 2009, photo, shows the entrance to the DeVry University in Miramar, Fla. The Biden administration says it will cancel more than $70 million in student debt for borrowers who say they were defrauded by the for-profit DeVry University. It marks the first time the Education Department has approved such claims for an institution that's still in operation. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

Education Department cancels $415M in student debt, citing for-profit college fraud

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, center, signs executive orders in the Governors conference room as Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, left, Suzanne Youngkin, second from left, Attorney General Jason Miyares, second from right, and Secretary of the Commonwealth, Kay Cole James, right, look on at the Capitol, Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. Virginia's Department of Education is conducting a review designed to root out critical race theory in schools. The review is the first thing Gov. Youngkin ordered after his inauguration and is expected to conclude later this month. Education officials have been reluctant to discuss what they've found thus far. While critics of the governor say critical race theory is a nonissue, others say there is ample evidence that the concepts have been embraced by administrators. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia

By Matthew Barakat and Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

In this Sept. 30, 2021, file photo, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration is moving to relax the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Senate Republicans expand inquiry into DOJ school-board memo to include Education Department

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Four Senate Democrats, including Virginia's Tim Kaine (right) and Mark Warner (left), have asked the Biden administration's Education Department to investigate the handling of sexual-abuse complaints at Lynchburg's Liberty University. (Associated Press)

Democrats call for Biden administration probe of sex-assault complaints at Liberty University

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this April 12, 2019, file photo, Sidney Draughon holds a sign as she takes part in a protest in Provo, Utah, against how the Brigham Young University Honor Code Office investigates and disciplines students. Brigham Young University in Utah has revised its strict code of conduct to strip a rule that banned any behavior that reflected 'homosexual feelings' which LGBTQ students and their allies felt created an unfair double standard not imposed on heterosexual couples. On June 16, 2021, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announced his agency will interpret Title IX federal legislation to protect LGBT students from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, a reversal of policy from the Trump administration and a move which critics fear could endanger religious schools. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, Dept. of Education says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this file photo, an empty hallway is shown at a school in Detroit, Mich., Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Associated Press) ** FILE **

Biden’s Education Department buried in avalanche of complaints about plans to fund ‘1619 Project’

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

At the moment, Catherine Lhamon is a deputy assistant to President Biden and the deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity where she manages the president’s “equity policy portfolio,” according to the White House. (United States Department of Education) ** FILE **

Catherine Lhamon tapped to be assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Mayor Bill de Blasio gives a news conference outside Phyl's Academy, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC schools ditch Columbus Day, will instead celebrate Italian Heritage/Indigenous People’s Day

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo, Anna Louisa, 18, holds her school-issued laptop at the Lower East Side Preparatory School in New York. About 8% of New York's public school students did not have a laptop or other device to use for remote learning in the first months of the school year, and about 6% lacked adequate internet access, survey results released Wednesday, May 5, 2021, show. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Survey: Many NY students began year without device, internet

By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press

In this Saturday, May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Proposals in Arkansas, Iowa and Mississippi would prohibit schools from using the New York Times' “1619 Project,&quot; that focused on slavery's legacy. Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the lead essay in the project, called it a work of journalism that wasn't intended to replace what's being taught in schools. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Biden administration offers grants to teach children ‘1619 Project,’ inherent racism central to U.S.

By James Varney - The Washington Times

GOP lawmakers quiz Wisconsin school chief over virus, aid

By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press