NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jonathan Johnson, founder and CEO of Rooted School Foundation, about a study involving his charter schools which gave $50 weekly to low-income students.

Michigan lawmakers are more than a month late in passing an education budget, with no resolution in sight.

Harvard University has been at the center of some big legal cases lately – cases that have all started on the desk of one federal judge, Allison Burroughs of Massachusetts. Here's a look at who she is.

The Cold War-era test was a staple of school gyms for half a century before the Obama administration replaced it. Trump says his focus on childhood fitness is for both physical and patriotic reasons.

President Trump announced he's bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test for school-aged children. It hasn't been in place since 2012.

Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

Alaska has long ignored warning signs of a budget crisis. Now, it has no money to fix something that is posing serious health and safety risks to students and staff: crumbling rural schools.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with school social worker Kia Baker and educator Melvin Bond about how parents in Baltimore struggle to keep up with the rising cost of school supplies.

Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations in a deal with the Trump administration that restores lost federal research funding, officials said Wednesday.

The Trump administration issued a report alleging Harvard University had violated civil rights law, citing an incident in which a religious scroll — known as a mezuzah — went temporarily missing from the doorway of a Jewish student's dorm room.