The Trump administration placed Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, on leave Monday, just weeks after the nation’s yearly report card showed mathematics and reading scores plummeting to two-decade lows.
At her confirmation hearing last week, Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, walked a thin line. On the one hand, she needed to assure Congress and the American people that she was fit for a cabinet-level position.
The Department of Education closed applications for Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans and loan consolidation applications in response to a federal court blocking parts of student loan repayment plans.
Trump Administration making strides to either shrink or eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. Here's how Louisiana schools could be impacted.
Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding would blow a big hole in the budgets of red states.