Since a White House executive order last January, 181 colleges have closed or renamed their DEI offices. But renaming the ...

Parents say racist incidents are going unchecked after the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights retreated from investigating schools in Lubbock County, Texas.

It’s been five years since California and other states started blocking colleges from withholding students’ transcripts for unpaid bills, with the federal government adding restrictions. But some ...

Amid a year of upheaval, were some promising steps taken to elevate children’s issues and pay for programs that support the earliest years of life.

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It started with Harvard University. Then Notre Dame, Cornell, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Colleges are racing to close or rename their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...

OAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five ...