The Department of Education is ordering staff whom it previously laid off from the Office for Civil Rights back to work to help manage a backlog of discrimination cases.

As part of budget cuts and a shift away from the small-schools model, Cleveland’s MC2STEM High School is being dissolved and converted into a STEM program housed at a high school in the city’s poorest neighborhood.

Between lightning-fast completion times and innovative state policy, FAFSA completion rates are up 12% over the Class of 2023, according to the National College Attainment Network.

Recent economic headwinds and policy changes have led to proposed or enacted cuts to public university and college funding across at least 15 states this year.