The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving planning grants of up to $100,000 each to nine school districts and charter groups to help them win Investing in Innovation, or i3, grants from the U.S. Department of Education. This should come as no...

When your government-funded program is on the chopping block, a rather damning Inspector General audit will do little to bolster your case for continued funding. Such is the case for the Center for Civic Education and its two grant programs, We...

English-language learners, students in special education, and homeless students took center stage in the U.S. Department of Education's second "stakeholders" forum, held here in Washington today. These events are intended to help lay the groundwork for...

Read deep into the final regulations for Race to the Top, and you'll see an outline of how the Education Department plans to judge states' applications. There's the 500-point grading scale, of course. But for the finalists, there's one last...

Media reports about inaccurate estimates of just how many jobs have been saved or created under the federal economic stimulus law came back to bite Obama administration officials testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee...