The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and ...

Education Department’s Overhaul Of Student Loans Moves To Final Stage

The Education Department’s massive overhaul of student loans entered the final stage of a lengthy administrative process with ...
Journal of Accountancy

Department of Education notice clarifies ‘professional’ degree definition

The notice of proposed rulemaking states that the exclusion of certain degree programs, including accounting, from the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Education Dept. Tells Universities Not to Use Student Voting Data

The department announced Thursday it’s investigating Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse over alleged student privacy violations in the National Study of Learning, Voting and ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return

WASHINGTON – Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work. A Dec. 5 email ...
Government Executive

Education Department spent up to $38M paying employees not to work before reinstating them, watchdog reports

The Government Accountability Office also reported that the caseload for the department’s Office for Civil Rights increased by an average of 98 cases per week during part of the time that these ...