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CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for COVID

August 11, 2022 at 6:44 p.m.

The nation's top public health agency relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines Thursday, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks ...

White House to extend student loan pause through August

April 5, 2022 at 12:45 p.m.

The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according...

Biden presses states to require vaccines for all teachers

September 10, 2021 at 3:42 p.m.

Hoping to prevent another school year from being upended by the pandemic, President Joe Biden visited a Washington middle school Friday to push his new COVID plan, accusing some Republican...

Death toll of powerful earthquake in Haiti soars to 1,297

August 15, 2021 at 5:55 p.m.

The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic...

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pause on student loan payments extended through January

August 6, 2021 at 3:39 p.m.

The Biden administration on Friday announced that federal student loan payments will remain suspended through January 2022, extending a pause that began at the start of the pandemic and was...

Vaccinated teachers and students don鈥檛 need masks, CDC says

July 9, 2021 at 9:51 a.m.

Vaccinated teachers and students don't need to wear masks inside school buildings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines.

Loan relief granted to defrauded for-profit college students

June 16, 2021 at 7:11 a.m.

The U.S. Education Department said Wednesday it's erasing student debt for thousands of borrowers who attended a for-profit college chain that made exaggerated claims about its graduates’ success in finding...

Survey: Even as schools reopen, many students learn remotely

April 7, 2021 at 7:03 a.m.

Large numbers of students are not returning to the classroom even as more schools reopen for full-time, in-person learning, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Biden administration.

With new aid, schools seek solutions to problems new and old

April 4, 2021 at 4:41 p.m.

With a massive infusion of federal aid coming their way, schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use the windfall to ease the harm of the pandemic -- and...

U.S. school survey shows “critical gaps” for in-person learning

March 24, 2021 at 12:45 p.m.

Nearly half of U.S. elementary schools were open for full-time classroom learning as of last month, but the share of students with in-person instruction has varied greatly by region and...

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