Cory Turner

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Education Correspondent and Senior Editor at NPR

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Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health

1 week ago | wgbh.org | Cory Turner

May 02, 2025 The Trump administration says it will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that school districts across the country have been using to hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
Republicans plan to overhaul the federal student loan system. Here's what to know

2 weeks ago | ideastream.org | Cory Turner

Updated May 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM EDTRepublicans on the House education committee publicly unveiled their plan Tuesday to remake the federal student loan system while also cutting more than $330 billion in federal spending to help offset the cost of extending President Trump's tax cuts.
Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health

2 weeks ago | opb.org | Cory Turner

The U.S. Department of Education is telling impacted districts that the Biden administration, in awarding the grants, violated "the letter or purpose of Federal civil rights law."Jim Watson / AFP via Getty ImagesThe Trump administration says it will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that school districts across the country have been using to hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
Why judges blocked the Trump admin's school DEI crackdown

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Cory Turner

Three federal judges, in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday that the Trump administration had overstepped when it ordered the nation's schools to stop all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs as well as classroom teaching the administration might consider discriminatory.
DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities. This student is ‘devastated’

1 month ago | mprnews.org | Cory Turner

If you visit the website for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), you'll find a "Wall of Receipts" listing more than 7,000 federal contracts it has terminated. Little detail is provided, besides the "savings" from each cancellation, and it's hard to determine the cost or collateral damage of all these cuts. But for some families, there has been a cost. One of these programs, cancelled on Feb. 10, was called Charting My Path for Future Success.
6 things borrowers should know about federal student loans right now

1 month ago | laist.com | Cory Turner

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Federal student loans

1 month ago | laist.com | Cory Turner

The federal student loan system is a mess right now. "Unprecedented uncertainty," says Beth Akers, a higher education researcher at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute (AEI). "Total disarray," says Michele Zampini with the left-leaning Institute for College Access and Success.
Trump says Education Department will no longer oversee student loans, 'special needs'

1 month ago | opb.org | Cory Turner

The federal student loan portfolio – which manages about $1.6 trillion in loans for roughly 43 million borrowers – is currently overseen by the Education Department's office of Federal Student Aid (FSA). President Donald Trump continued the unwinding of the U.S. Department of Education on Friday, announcing that the management of the entire federal student loan portfolio and of the department’s “special needs” programs would be moved to other federal agencies effective immediately.
Trump says Education Department will no longer oversee student loans, 'special needs'

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Cory Turner

2 hours agoColumbia University agrees to Trump demands in effort to restore federal fundingThe Trump administration — which canceled $400 million in grants — had ordered the school to implement a mask ban, discipline protesters, reform admissions and more. Columbia University has agreed to a list of demands by the Trump administration in order to start negotiations on restoring $400 …9 hours agoMusk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court electionMADISON, Wis.
How Alabama students went from last place to rising stars in math

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Cory Turner |Nate Schweber

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They multiply with plastic blocks and learn fractions using multi-colored magnetic tiles. Here, math fits in the palm of your hand – just one sign of a countywide re-imagining of elementary school math instruction that has led to dramatic student improvement between 2019 and 2024.

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