In a year so far characterized by massive federal funding and staff cuts, education data groups breathed a sigh of relief this summer when the Department of Education announced it was moving forward ...

One in five undergraduate students and one in four graduate students are parents, according to data analysis from SPARK ...

(TNS) — Struggling with how to prevent another deadly shooting after the slayings at Apalachee High School, Georgia lawmakers took steps this year to develop a statewide database of troubled youth.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today led a coalition of 17 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter ...

The Trump administration is demanding additional student enrollment data from federally funded universities to ensure they're no longer using affirmative action methods in their admissions processes.

Dramatic cuts at the U.S. Department of Education have left a “skeletal staff” at offices that oversee research and troves of education data, putting efforts to improve schools at risk, a coalition of ...

The Office of Public Instruction currently collects nearly 200 points of information for school accreditation, funding, and assessing the quality of programming and student well-being. This data, ...

Institutions of higher education and their advocates are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s plan to require colleges to submit new data about their admissions decisions. They argued ...

Brookings, has brought an amendment that requires more data collection on students' behavioral incidents in school.