It was almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of the Trump administration’s biggest impacts on education in 2025. Here’s what changed across colleges and universities, K-12 schools,

Lawmakers, union leaders and education officials say shifting programs out of the department risks losing expertise, adding bureaucracy and weakening support for students and families.

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it at an indoor presidential inauguration parade event in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025. Trump's executive actions prompted legal challenges virtually from the moment he took office, and education-related policies were not immune.

Here are a few questions that rise to the top for our team when thinking about the next 12 months in early education

The Education 2030 agenda was adopted in 2015 to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’ by 2030 with a series of targets set out to realize this. Before COVID-19, the world was already off ...

Fifty years ago, Congress dramatically expanded schools’ responsibilities when it passed the nation’s primary special education law, requiring children with disabilities to receive a “free appropriate public education” alongside their non-disabled peers.

In its first meeting in over a year, the bipartisan legislative committee tasked with overseeing the state’s education freedom account program took the unexpected step on Tuesday of electing a Democrat to serve as its chair.

There are 771 million illiterate adults globally today, according to UNESCO’s Institute of Statistics. And many more do not have the adequate skills and knowledge needed to navigate through our increasingly digital 21 st century demands. How is this ...

What's old is new again in 2026 for education. Why it matters: 2025 left many unresolved questions about everything from spending to religious freedom — and the answers are expected to come this year,

Parent empowerment, along with learning innovations developed outside of the federal government, are the future.