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President Donald Trump gestures before signing an executive order targeting what his administration says is growing anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Anti-Semitism order raises tough issue of defining prejudice

By ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2019 file photo, a bicyclist rides past a sign at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. A Florida grand jury looking into last year's Parkland school shooting chided schools, law enforcement and other local jurisdictions over continued &quot;turf wars&quot; that could hamper the response to another crisis. In a report released overnight, the statewide grand jury said the continued squabbling and other &quot;systemic&quot; failures were urgent enough for it to speak out before its term. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

‘Turf wars’ alarm Florida panel probing Parkland shooting

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN - Associated Press

The Education Department's revisions to a loan forgiveness program will make some students ineligible, specifically those who attended now-defunct for-profit colleges. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Revised loan forgiveness program to exclude students of now-defunct for-profit schools

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

12 NYC classrooms closed for lead paint abatement

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2019, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listening to President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. DeVos is calling on Congress to consider splitting her department’s financial aid operation into a separate federal agency with the flexibility to operate like a private bank. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

DeVos calls for making financial aid unit a separate agency

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Ethics fines issued to Hawaii education department officials

Associated Press

New Mexico picks new testing system for young students

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is followed by reporters as they walk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate panel advances judicial nominee on party-line vote

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

44 percent of Louisiana schools need improvement plans

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

AETN allegedly misused more than $400,000 in grant money

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Duke University and the University of North Carolina have been straying from the point of federal grant goals with their Middle East studies program, which is to bolster national security, officials say. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies accused of straying from straying from grant goals

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 12, 2017, file photo, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh speaks during a news conference in Washington. Frosh and a coalition of state lawmakers have asked U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos why so many people are being denied by the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Md. lawmakers, AG question DeVos on loan forgiveness program

By Elliott Davis and Capital News Service - Associated Press

White House lawyer Steven Menashi, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, appears for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Menashi's guarded responses were frustrating at times to both Democrats and Republicans on the Judiciary panel. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators blast Trump judicial nominee for silence at hearing

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

School system acquitted in handling of sex-assault claim

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

Kentucky AG rules Education Department violated records act

Associated Press

2 Indiana online charter schools face being forced to close

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2019, file photo, then New Mexico State University dean and research director Karen Trujillo of Las Cruces, middle, speaks as she is announced as the new as the new Public Education Department Secretary at a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has removed the head of the state's Public Education Department while expressing dissatisfaction with efforts to implement sweeping education reforms. Lujan Grisham spokesman Tripp Stelnicki said Monday, July 22, that Trujillo had been dismissed nearly six months after her appointment as Cabinet secretary for public education. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

New Mexico governor removes public education secretary

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

In this April 10, 2019, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. An internal Education Department watchdog says DeVos has sometimes used personal email accounts for government business and did not always properly save the messages. The agency's Office of Inspector General released a report Monday, May 20, finding &quot;limited&quot; instances in which DeVos sent work emails from four personal accounts. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file) **FILE**

Education Department investigates anti-Semitic bias at Duke-North Carolina conference

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal speaks during a news conference on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, in Woodbridge, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

52 Attorneys General call on Department of Education to forgive disabled vets’ student loan debt

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 file photo, Kathy Hoffman, a Democratic superintendent of public education, poses for a portrait in Phoenix. Arizona lawmakers are moving to allow a handful of children from the Navajo reservation to continue using school vouchers at a Christian school in New Mexico. Emergency legislation approved in a House committee Thursday, May 23, 2019, gives seven children another year to use their Empowerment Scholarship Account for private-school tuition in another state, though the law requires vouchers be used at Arizona schools. Hoffman said the legislation is a good compromise that gives the affected families time to figure out their next steps while respecting the will of voters, who voted last year to reject an expansion of the voucher program. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona House OKs Navajo school voucher fix, Senate next

By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press