NPR has spent the past few weeks catching up with student loan experts and asking the Trump administration for clarity on some of borrowers' biggest questions.
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NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with former Education Secretary John B. King Jr. about the dismantling of the education department and recent arrests of international scholars.
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The state's restriction on school calendars has long been a bone of contention pitting state lawmakers and the tourism industry against school boards and families, regardless of their political persuasion.
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Artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced a major new partnership in Durham.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mo Green on Wednesday night weighed in on the potential termination of the U. S. Department of Education.
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The 2025-26 budget reflects the financial uncertainty at the local, state and federal levels.
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For about 30 years, the Ph.D. Project has supported students from underrepresented groups who are earning doctoral degrees in business. Now, it's attracted the attention of the Trump administration.
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The president said federal student loans would move to the Small Business Administration, and hinted that the Department of Health and Human Services would take over special education oversight.
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With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.
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More than 40,000 North Carolina students have applied so far to receive state funding to attend a K-12 private school next fall. Twice as many could still apply to renew vouchers they received this school year.
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The University of Pennsylvania found itself at the center of the trans athlete debate when one of its trans students won a series of events during the 2022 swim season.
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The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by nearly half.
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Radio stations at historically Black colleges and universities have always played a special role in connecting the schools to their communities. A new effort is underway to preserve the rich history and the programming these stations produced that documents the Black experience from the days of reel-to-reel recorders and 8-tracks to MP3s.