Department of Education

The Biden administration is temporarily relaxing the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements

The Biden administration says it will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with disabilities that leave them unable to earn significant incomes

New York education officials have issued a COVID-19 reopening guide for school districts that were caught off guard when the state’s health commissioner said he wouldn’t issue safety recommendations

Asked whether there should be mask mandates in schools to contain the spread of COVID-19, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said she does not yet have the authority to make that call, but said, “I believe that there’ll end up being mask mandates.” And some parents aren’t happy about it. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced it would extend the student loan pause first issued due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic until Jan. 31.

The 52-year-old substitute teacher allegedly told the Elmhurst students that if they didn’t do what he was telling them to do, he was going to shoot them, police sources said, adding that that he had a gun.

A 12-year-old boy who died after police said he complained of head pain following reports he was punched in the head at school suffered no physical trauma, the medical examiner’s office said Monday. The cause and manner of death for Romy Vilsaint are pending further study, a spokesperson said. The NYPD had said Vilsaint had no clear signs of...

Police officials on Saturday confirmed reports that the boy had been punched in the head by a classmate.

A New York City mother is outraged after she says her child’s online classroom was hacked on the first day of remote orientation, with the hackers disrupting the class with pictures and pornography

The DOE says it has strict security to prevent such incidents. The class was immediately taken offline and the incident is under investigation.

California, Michigan and three other states are suing the U.S. Department of Education over pandemic relief funds

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Education Department and Secretary Betsy DeVos over revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses, claiming that the changes would “inflict significant harm” on victims and “dramatically undermine” their civil rights, NBC News reports.

New York Department of Education has reported at least 50 of its employees have died after contracting the coronavirus. The department released the number on Monday, detailing that 22 of those who lost their lives to COVID-19 were paraprofessionals, 21 were teachers, two were administrators, one was a facilities staffer, one was a guidance counselor and another was a food…

Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo are at odds on the decision to close NYC schools for the remainder of the year. Melissa Russo reports.

A veteran special education teacher in Queens allegedly made a 9-year-old girl with autism inappropriately touch him while other students were in the classroom, law enforcement sources say. Marc Santia reports.

A veteran special education teacher allegedly made a 9-year-old girl with autism inappropriately touch him in front of the entire class, law enforcement sources said. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

A veteran special education teacher allegedly made a 9-year-old girl with autism inappropriately touch him while other students were in the classroom, law enforcement sources tell NBC New York. Another adult at The Carl Ullman School in Oakland Gardens, Queens, witnessed Marc Scheibel grabbing the hand of the young student, who is non-verbal, and forced her to touch him. The…

The New York City Department of Education could change how it investigates candidates for high-level positions after an investigation found that a high-ranking schools official accused of sexual abuse lied about a forced resignation in his background check. In the Special Commissioner of Investigation’s report on David Hay, the former deputy chief of staff to New York City Schools...

A now fired New York City schools official allegedly bought a whirpool suite at a Wisconsin hotel to meet up with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old boy, according to a criminal complaint revealed Friday. David Hay, who was arrested at an airport in Milwaukee on Dec. 29 on a charge of using a computer to facilitate a…

A New York City schools official is facing child sex charges in Wisconsin, the city Department of Education confirmed to News 4 New York. David Hay was arrested at an airport in Milwaukee on Sunday on a charge of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, according to the New York Times, which first reported the arrest. Hay…