Penny Schwinn, a former Tennessee Department of Education commissioner, has been named by President-elect Donald Trump as his pick to serve as the next U.S. deputy secretary of education.

Penny Schwinn, a former teacher and state schools chief, is an advocate for school choice and evidence-based reading practices.

Decades ago, Jimmy Carter engineered the creation of the modern Education Department. On the heels of his death, the agency's future is threatened.

Lancaster County public schools could see cuts to nearly $55 million in federal funding if President-elect Donald Trump succeeds in his promise to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

Erica Meltzer is National Editor at Chalkbeat, where she covers education policy and politics. Erica was a founding editor of the local news site Denverite. Before that, she covered everything from housing and energy policy to crime and courts for newspapers in three states. She served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay.

Last June, a month after the landmark House settlement was agreed to, NCAA president Charlie Baker told a group of athletes and administrators assembled in Atlanta that he'd like to see guidance on a national standard for how Title IX fits into revenue sharing.

Two days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term in the White House, tens of thousands are converging on the nation's capital in support of progressive causes, issues they believe could be a t risk under the incoming administration.

Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate the Department of Education gains support from several Republican states, with officials arguing that local control c

A conservative nonprofit, the American Accountability Foundation, released a "watch-list" of 10 top "left-wing" bureaucrats at the Department of Education.

North Carolina Representative David Rouzer has introduced H.R. 369, a bill seeking to abolish the U.S. Department of Education as part of Donald Trump

Since launching in 2021, America First Policy Institute has been known colloquially around Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump's "Cabinet in waiting."