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Four Senate Democrats, including Virginia's Tim Kaine (right) and Mark Warner (left), have asked the Biden administration's Education Department to investigate the handling of sexual-abuse complaints at Lynchburg's Liberty University. (Associated Press)

Democrats call for Biden administration probe of sex-assault complaints at Liberty University

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this April 12, 2019, file photo, Sidney Draughon holds a sign as she takes part in a protest in Provo, Utah, against how the Brigham Young University Honor Code Office investigates and disciplines students. Brigham Young University in Utah has revised its strict code of conduct to strip a rule that banned any behavior that reflected 'homosexual feelings' which LGBTQ students and their allies felt created an unfair double standard not imposed on heterosexual couples. On June 16, 2021, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announced his agency will interpret Title IX federal legislation to protect LGBT students from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, a reversal of policy from the Trump administration and a move which critics fear could endanger religious schools. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, Dept. of Education says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this file photo, an empty hallway is shown at a school in Detroit, Mich., Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Associated Press) ** FILE **

Biden’s Education Department buried in avalanche of complaints about plans to fund ‘1619 Project’

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

At the moment, Catherine Lhamon is a deputy assistant to President Biden and the deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity where she manages the president’s “equity policy portfolio,” according to the White House. (United States Department of Education) ** FILE **

Catherine Lhamon tapped to be assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education

By James Varney - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo, Anna Louisa, 18, holds her school-issued laptop at the Lower East Side Preparatory School in New York. About 8% of New York's public school students did not have a laptop or other device to use for remote learning in the first months of the school year, and about 6% lacked adequate internet access, survey results released Wednesday, May 5, 2021, show. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Survey: Many NY students began year without device, internet

By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press

Mayor Bill de Blasio gives a news conference outside Phyl's Academy, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC schools ditch Columbus Day, will instead celebrate Italian Heritage/Indigenous People’s Day

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Proposals in Arkansas, Iowa and Mississippi would prohibit schools from using the New York Times' “1619 Project,&quot; that focused on slavery's legacy. Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the lead essay in the project, called it a work of journalism that wasn't intended to replace what's being taught in schools. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Biden administration offers grants to teach children ‘1619 Project,’ inherent racism central to U.S.

By James Varney - The Washington Times

GOP lawmakers quiz Wisconsin school chief over virus, aid

By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press

Lawsuit targets Virginia’s policies on transgender students

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks with members of the press before Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Sunday, March 28, 2021. Biden is returning to Washington after spending the weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Biden cancels another $1.3 billion in student loan debt

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, a Los Angeles Unified School District student attends an online class at the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles. A new federal survey finds that nearly half of the nation's elementary schools were open for full-time, in-person instruction last month, but the share of students learning in-person has varied greatly by region and race. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

School survey shows ‘critical gaps’ for in-person learning

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

President Joe Biden departs after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Joe Biden directs evaluation of Trump’s Title IX regulation on sexual misconduct

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Education Secretary nominee Miguel Cardona testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate has confirmed him as Education Secretary on March 1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

Senate confirms Cardona as Biden’s education secretary

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2019, file photo, New Mexico Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart speaks during an interview in his office in Santa Fe, N.M. State education officials will seek flexibility to federal student testing requirements after the federal Department of Education said it would not grant a blanket waiver to assessments as it did last year at the start of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

Education officials seek flexibility on student testing

By CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

In this Feb. 7, 2019, file photo, Bloomfield High School transgender athlete Terry Miller, second from left, wins the final of the 55-meter dash over transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood, far left, and other runners in the Connecticut girls Class S indoor track meet at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb, File)

Biden administration accused of deserting female athletes by exiting transgender case

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times