In an exit interview with USA TODAY, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona reflected on his agency's accomplishments – and its unpredictable future.

On Wednesday, the federal Education Department approved $4.5 billion in student loan forgiveness for 261,000 former Ashford University students.

President Joe Biden will leave the White House with some unfulfilled promises to federal student loan borrowers, but he can still boast that he forgave more than $188 billion in loans.

Biden's term was marked by unprecedented funding for schools, but no aggressive policy agenda. Did his administration do enough?

We asked more than a dozen educators, researchers, advocates and experts how they would grade Biden's education legacy. He got two F's, no A's and lots of votes in the middle.

While Republican states were working to limit school history lessons and ban transgender athletes, President Joe Biden’s education chief said he was focused on what matters — putting more social workers in schools,

The outgoing administration's Department of Education dropped an 11th-hour salvo saying any payments must be “proportionately” distributed to men and women athletes to satisfy Title IX.

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week will mean sweeping changes in the way the federal government handles issues from foreign policy to education — and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is already rebutting what he’s expecting to see from his successor.

In Biden's last announcement on student-loan forgiveness, he canceled over $600 million in debt for nearly 9,000 borrowers.

President Joe Biden is canceling $600 million in student loans, the final round of his administration’s piecemeal debt forgiveness efforts after the Supreme Court blocked a sweeping plan to wipe away borrowers’ balances.

In the second student-debt relief announcement this week, Biden canceled loans for borrowers who were defrauded by Ashford University.