Press Releases 
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March 20, 2024
On March 20, 2024, the Park City School District in Utah signed a resolution agreement to resolve the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigation of seven complaints of unlawful harassment filed in 2023.
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March 14, 2024
The Biden-Harris Administration today announced the U.S Department of Education (Department) is providing a Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) grant to the Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) to support recovery from wildfires that devastated the island of Maui in August 2023.
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March 14, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today reminded schools of their obligations to address discrimination against Muslim, Arab, Sikh, South Asian, Hindu, and Palestinian students.
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March 11, 2024
The Biden-Harris Administration today released the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2025.
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March 5, 2024
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February 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today opened applications for the School-Based Mental Health and Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration grant competitions to help bolster the pipeline of mental health professionals serving in schools and expand student access to school-based mental health services and supports.
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February 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education today announced updates on its progress on the 2024–25 Better FAFSA® implementation.
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February 26, 2024
Guidance Advances President Biden’s Work to Invest in Early Learning
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February 26, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today released a "Toolkit for the Promotion of Voter Participation for Students" to provide resources for educational institutions to help them identify and implement actions to assist eligible students with voter registration and voting.
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February 22, 2024
The Biden-Harris Administration today is publishing a state-by-state breakdown of the nearly 153,000 borrowers who are receiving $1.2 billion in forgiveness under President Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan. Servicers started processing this forgiveness today.