All but one of the nation’s 26 Republican governors are signing their states up for the first federal program that will fund private school scholarships through tax credits. Their Democratic ...

State officials and some education advocates are at odds over the legality of a new federal tax credit scholarship program that Gov. Mike Dunleavy said he signed Alaska on to earlier this week. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One popular variant claimed the government was taking money from people's earned income and saying it would be used as a "benefit" ...

The Department of Education on Friday proposed a new rule that would cut off federal student loans to college programs whose ...

Illinois could soon opt into the first federal school voucher program — an initiative long-championed by private school advocates and religious conservatives — but Gov. JB Pritzker has yet to weigh in ...

This commentary reviews current means-tested federal benefit programs designed to assist low-income individuals and families. The large number of those programs is amplified by similar state and local ...

Social Security is often framed as a handout from Washington, but the program rests on a simple, concrete reality: workers pay into it with every paycheck and then draw on what they have earned.

Illinois has a big decision to make this year. And it’s an easy one. Either Illinois students will see hundreds of millions of dollars in new resources supporting education or they will watch from the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The latest funding package from Congress includes cuts to the CDC Arthritis Program. The package also includes ...

Michigan's 340B Drug Pricing Program, meant to help vulnerable patients, is being misused by hospitals, impacting care access.