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States are jockeying for a new $5 billion pot of education money even before the contest has begun.
The Obama administration is ready to hand out more stimulus dollars for schools, but this time, strings are attached.
The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
The Education Department is reassuring the state of Massachusetts it does not agree with an internal watchdog who suggested the state was using economic stimulus money improperly.
Pushing for a link between student test scores and teacher pay, President Barack Obama on Wednesday dangled $5 billion in federal grants to states willing to undertake a top-to-bottom overhaul of their schools in support of White House priorities.
Many states declare students to have grade-level mastery of reading and math when they do not, the Education Department reported Thursday.
Not content with shaping education directly through schools, the biggest player in the school reform movement has an eye on moving education policy.
The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom.
School lunches need more fruits, veggies and whole grains and a limit on calories, says a report urging an update of the nation's 14-year-old standards for cafeteria fare.
New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year.
With states jockeying for extra school dollars from the economic stimulus, Education Secretary Arne Duncan reminded them Tuesday the point is to help kids do better.
School districts and nonprofit partners can benefit from a $650 million competitive grant fund for school reforms pushed by President Barack Obama.
Hundreds of school buildings across the United States have caulk around windows and doors containing potentially cancer-causing PCBs, the Environmental Protection Agency says.
Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.
The Obama administration is committed to the school accountability at the heart of the No Child Left Behind law championed by former President George W. Bush but also wants to make changes, says Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Federal authorities failed to tell schools about recalls of potentially tainted peanut products and canned vegetables, and cafeterias may have unknowingly served them to children, the Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday.
The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s — a bill to oust private lenders from the student loan business and put the government in charge.
Classrooms are filling up as kids head back to school, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's two children are among them.
When kids all across the country return to school Tuesday, some will see a welcoming message from President Barack Obama and some won't.
President Barack Obama's back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on children, creating yet another confrontation with the White House.
President Barack Obama says a bill in Congress would help him send millions more Americans to college. But the measure may fall short of Obama's goal.
The National Education Association pointedly criticized the Obama administration, saying the president is relying too heavily on charter schools and standardized tests in his attempt to overhaul the nation's schools.
Health officials are offering some basic advice for college students with flu symptoms: Avoid other people until 24 hours after a fever is gone.
Teach for America and programs like it could benefit from a $650 million competitive grant fund for school reforms pushed by President Barack Obama.
Hundreds of schools are heeding the government's call to set up flu-shot clinics this fall, preparing for what could be the most widespread school vaccinations since the days of polio.
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