The letter to Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. fits into a broader pattern of Democrats urging the Education Department to take a proactive role in ESSA implementation.
There's an outside, slim, but still interesting-to-think-about chance that Sanders could end up becoming the top Democrat on the Senate education committee, or even the panel's chairman come January.
James Guthrie, the former head of the Nevada schools, said he had a chance meeting with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee back in January, before the Iowa presidential caucuses.
The Every Student Succeeds Act makes it easier for children in foster care to stay in their original schools, but different groups have different ideas about how the costs should be covered.
Where does Donald Trump's status as presumptive GOP nominee leave the folks who have advised Republican candidates on education policy for years? Will they go to work for him if he's elected or help his campaign?
A Whiteboard Advisors survey offers a look at who education insiders think might head the Education Department under a President Hillary Clinton or a President Donald Trump.
"He's created an environment of scapegoating and demonizing. It is influencing children and it is influencing behavior in schools. It is making it much, much harder for us," AFT President Randi Weingarten said on a conference call Thursday.
How familiar does the Every Student Succeeds Act feel to superintendents and principals, and do they think it will have a positive or negative impact on districts and schools?
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was featured in an Education Week story 26 years ago involving the site of a hotel where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
A report from the Education Department on 2015 complaints show that language-bias cases are on the rise, and in most states, civil rights complaints related to disabilities were the most common.
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