Despite lawsuits filed by parents and concerns raised by independent hearing officers, the Chicago Board of Education on May 22 approved closing 49 schools, just four fewer than the 53 it had announced earlier this year.

Private foundations are giving an increasing amount of money to education. But they are directing it to a shrinking number of groups, and the losers are public schools and public universities.

A new report says the State of Louisiana has failed to adequately monitor its publicly funded charter schools to confirm that the schools’ reported numbers of graduates, dropouts and student attendance are true.

For the first time, Hispanics are entering college at a greater rate than white or black students, a new report shows. Their rate of enrollment in college has risen to 70 percent.

U.S. clothing retailers are lagging European brands in signing onto an accord for factory safety in Bangladesh.

The Department of Education has finally agreed to speed its replacement of light fixtures laden with cancer-causing PCBs that threaten the health and safety of students and staff in 650 city schools.