Mary Ellen Klas is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former capital bureau chief for the Miami Herald, she has covered politics and government for more than three decades.

The US Supreme Court cleared the Education Department to withhold money for teacher-training projects in eight states, ...

Universities in the US are facing higher risk “across the sector” because of moves by the Trump administration, according to Moody’s Ratings, which lowered its outlook for the US higher ...

The US Department of Education’s sweeping cuts Tuesday included staff that oversee schools’ efforts to help millions of students learn English. Employees from the Office of English Language ...

The two largest US teachers’ unions and a prominent civil-rights group sued the Trump administration for moving to abolish the Education Department, adding to a growing number of lawsuits ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive action formally asking officials to take steps to largely dismantle the Department of Education, his latest effort to reduce the size of the ...

President Donald Trump was sued by a group of mostly Democratic-led states over his alleged plan to effectively dismantle the US Education Department by slashing its workforce in half. The plan to ...

Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University won't have to worry about student loans. On Monday, Johns Hopkins announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by the billionaire Michael ...