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Fed-up New York City parents are demanding no masks in the classroom when school reopens in September. Calling the coverings cruel, needless and detrimental to learning, some say they are even mulling homeschooling or private education options. “I’m not willing to send him to school with a mask,” Manhattan mom Katherine Rohland said of her 3 1/2-year-old son, Robert, who is scheduled to go to a Department of Education pre-kindergarten program in the fall. Rohland said the tot had to wear a mask at nursery school and immediately shut down, not talking to anyone, when he put it on. She...

The Department of Education (DoED) is conducting an investigation into foreign governments funding U.S. universities, and they have found that governments such as Russia, China and Qatar have given them a staggering $1.3 billion. These are the preliminary findings in an ongoing investigation into six different universities, and Education Secretary Betsy Devos believes that much more money could be discovered before the investigation concludes. “It is already a reporting requirement for schools to report all foreign contributions. From my perspective, it’s a simple requirement: Report all foreign money you get.” DeVos told the Washington Examiner. “We’re going to continue to...

Student loan holders logging on to an Education Department Web site between Sunday night and Tuesday morning exposed their personal identities to others as a result of a glitch in a contractor's efforts to service the site. As first reported in the Boston Globe Wednesday, as many as 21,000 borrowers in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program could have had their personal data, including Social Security numbers, birthdates and addresses, compromised in yet another government agency data breach. This incident follows a string of publicized breaches governmentwide, affecting information systems in more than a dozen federal agencies. Dallas-based Affiliated Computer...