A grant from the Department of Education will fund the City Connects program in Gary Community Schools for the next five years.

Eleven Indiana schools are being honored as National Blue Ribbon Schools this year by the U.S. Department of Education. Each of the schools were nominated for exemplary high performance.

Indiana lawmakers approved legislation a decade ago that was intended to regulate and curb the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. But a lack of oversight from the Indiana Department of Education means it’s unclear whether the law has had its intended effect.

Fort Wayne Community Schools will receive an influx of nearly $2 million to strengthen their mental health services from a grant funded by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

Around 294,000 Hoosiers could have their student loans wiped away under President Joe Biden's effort to forgive federal student loan debt.

As schools scrambled to deliver special education services in an online format during the early months of the pandemic, students with disabilities faced unique challenges. But many special education students lost more than classroom time and educational services; they also lost social opportunities.

ITT Tech filed bankruptcy and abruptly closed in 2016, and U.S. DOE has already forgiven loans for 18,000 student borrowers it said were misled by the school as it grappled with financial troubles.

The federal government recently dismissed an investigation into the Indiana Department of Education. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights earlier this year opened an investigation citing “disturbing reports” from parents of students with disabilities who said their children were forced into “one size fits all” remote learning programs.

Cori Brunson of Fort Wayne was a student at the local ITT Technical Institute campus. She was just three months from being certified as a registered nurse. Then, just before her semester began in 2016, she got a voicemail saying classes were canceled.

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 jobs.