Jon Valant appeared on WBUR to explain how efforts to undermine the U.S. Department of Education could affect students and their communities.

Michael Hansen contributed to a discussion about the stark gaps in teacher qualification that exist between poor and wealthy school districts in Michigan.

If there is one overarching theme, it’s that we’re pulling apart—economically, socially and politically.

When we think about the colleges that have an endowment over a billion, the majority of them are private institutions, and, for them, this is not the first sort of outreach or..."

Rachel Perera explained that executive orders taking aim at federal workers could spur concern, prompting many of the Education Department’s 4,000 staffers to leave, weakening expertise...

“I don’t think we’re going to see a dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education because it would require an act of Congress.”

Rachel Perera spoke to Education Week about the ways Trump can weaken the Department of Education.

[If Trump or Congress were to scale back financial aid], that would obviously be very expensive to the state, so I think they would have a vested interest in that not happening.

[Education outcomes] got a lot worse during COVID, and we bounced back partially, but we haven’t bounced back fully on really any measure.

On November 16, Jon Valant discussed President-elect Trump’s education policy proposals, including the elimination of the Department of Education.