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With roughly nine million student borrowers in default, the Treasury Department will "assume operational responsibility for collecting" on those loans, the Education Department announced Thursday. The move is ED's latest effort to render itself obsolete as part of the Trump administration's plan to eliminate the department. This is the 10th interagency agreement it has signed to share with or spin off functions to other federal agencies.

Over the past few weeks leading up to the teachers strike, Superintendent Maria Su repeatedly told the press and labor negotiators that dipping into the district's over $400 million reserves was, simply, "not an option." But projected spending shows that the district will significantly spend its reserves to pay for its labor agreements, potentially depleting its "restricted funding" by 2028.

The New York Independent Journalism Project is designed to support independent and traditional journalism as a vital civic good, aiming to deepen public understanding of New York City and state government law and policy.

Computational linguistics is a two-way street: You're either using a computer to do things with human language or communicate or translate or teach a foreign language, or you're using computational techniques to learn something about human languages. Her work documenting and preserving endangered languages uses a little bit of both.

The Palo Alto Unified School District is in the middle of at least 11 different lawsuits, including cases that allege unchecked bullying, racist attacks, injured students, inadequate special education and retaliation by district leadership.

Safety is never guaranteed, says Khun Sue Reh, 23, who on Monday was among the group graduating with the specially designed three-year nursing qualification. Alongside the usual coursework and exams, the students face airstrikes on the hospitals where they are training, government spy drones overhead, roadblocks and internet blackouts.

Workers will reconfigure roughly 72,700 square feet of existing space into classrooms and advanced learning labs. A brand new 16,600-square-foot gymnasium will complement the campus and bring the total size to nearly 89,400 square feet. The school will also feature around 100 staff members along with a summer session lasting six to eight weeks.

One surprising name on the list: Macquline King, who has been serving as interim leader of Chicago Public Schools since June, after originally being told she was not in the running. She joins Meisha Porter, the first Black woman to lead New York City's school system, and Sito Narcisse, a former superintendent of Louisiana's East Baton Rouge Parish schools and chief of secondary schools in the District of Columbia.

The contract, which is retroactive to July 2025 and runs through June 30, 2027, was approved by 84% of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers (BFT) membership, which includes 900 teachers, counselors, substitutes, school psychologists and librarians in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD). The agreement will provide a 3% salary increase this school year and another 3% raise next year, plus a one-time $1,000 bonus.

For nearly a decade, while his son, Varad Nerker, lived away from home for studies, he called his father at dusk. No matter how busy he was, he would say, papa, bas awaaz sunni thi [I just wanted to hear your voice], recalls the 55-year-old government employee. That routine between the son and the father broke two years ago.

Louisiana comic Pharis was a failed NFL lineman who went on to teaching, realizing that nobody hits harder than a 3rd grader. This Breakfast Club of teachers, born out of students who know what detention is, but can't spell it, relates to everyone who has ever suffered being a teacher, or student.

Being thrown into a group of new strangers each and every year, as is typical in so many American public school systems, is deeply evolutionarily unnatural. Under ancestral conditions, humans did not encounter strangers with nearly the same frequency that we experience now. And guess what? Humans have an entirely different way of interacting with strangers (including appropriate levels of hesitation and skepticism) than we have when interacting with others whom we know well.