Jon Valant was interviewed on CBS Evening News about the executive order aiming to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. 

You can’t cut that many people from the department and not expect that services will decline…When you have fewer people in that office, people are going to get slower services. They may..."

It’s hard to imagine that these staffing cuts won’t have the effect of curtailing the department’s ability to carry out their core functions.

Jon Valant spoke to Newsweek about the potential impact, or lack thereof, of Trump’s plans to dismantle the Department of Education on national math and reading scores.

Repurposing OCR’s work to terminate federal funding for these more expansive interpretations of current federal law is going to be an uphill battle.

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...