U.S. Department of Education

When South Dakota voters defeated Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s education-reforms package three weeks ago, one of the rejected changes would have required school districts to begin evaluating principals.  That requirement was a key component of the...

PIERRE — State Department of Education officials are proceeding with a three-year plan to convert student achievement tests to an online format, using computers to replace paper and pencil.  Some colony schools where church elders prohibit...

A small group of Washington County parents has submitted to Washington County Public Schools a concept proposal for a charter school with an environmental focus and a strong emphasis on hands-on learning. Under state law, proposals for new charter...

Courtney Watson's commentary regarding cyberbullying ("Cyberbullying requires a stronger response," Jan. 3) makes some excellent points about the intense need to develop mechanisms to address the dramatically increasing problem of cyberbullying. However,...

A Los Angeles-area nonprofit that provides education services to low-income families and poverty-stricken communities received a $30-million grant from the U.S. Department of Education on Friday....

Federal officials have rejected California’s request for exemption from rules that penalize low-performing schools and school districts, state officials announced Friday....

The Seminole school district has lost out on a federal Race To The Top grant it hoped to win. The U.S. Department of Education announce today that 16 applicants have been chosen to share the $400 million grant. And Seminole is not one of them. The FDOE...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks garnered $1.9 million from the U.S. Department of Education for their linguistics program. The awarded money will fund a projected three-year program that aims to improve educational outcomes for Alaska Native students...

Three finalists are to be interviewed next Tuesday for the post of Florida's education commissioner. They are (with applications packets attached for two of the three. Technical problems on the third but working on it): – Tony Bennett, outgoing...

Loyola Marymount University is set to receive a slew of federal grants totaling nearly $3 million. The private school in Los Angeles recently landed two awards from the National Science Foundation and one from the U.S. Department of Education. The......

California ranked in the bottom half of states in overall high school graduation rate in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Education....

A local charter school organization is a finalist for a high-profile federal grant, but the Los Angeles Unifed School District failed to qualify in the same competition. Green Dot Public Schools, which operates 18 charter schools, remains in the running.....