President Donald Trump plans to donate his $100,000 salary for this quarter to the agency, to help pay for a camp focused on science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM.
The U.S. secretary of education has been in office for going on six months and has been way more active on higher education than on K-12.
The U.S. secretary of education told those gathered for a conference of the conservative ALEC group that she supports a smaller federal role in education and encouraged states to pursue school choice.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reiterated her call for vouchers and other forms of school choice at a gathering Monday for special educators.
The U.S. secretary of education's handling of various civil rights issues has raised big concerns for Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., top Democrat on the Senate education committee.
The education secretary's comments came at the end of a daylong summit where she heard from survivors of sexual assault and students who have been accused of it.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' home state education chief thinks her department is sending confusing messages on how states should approach implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
A House panel rejected it as part of the budget, and time is short for getting a tax-based school choice plan over the finish line this year.
The head of the Senate education committee, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., thinks Jason Botel, who is charged with implementing the law, should bone up on how the Every Student Succeeds Act limits the federal role.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will kick off the education department's summer reading program Wednesday at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
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