WASHINGTON -- Alta Colleges Inc. and its wholly-owned collegiate schools in Texas have agreed to pay the United States $7 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the Texas schools submitted false claims for federal student aid funds, the Justice Department announced today.

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that $44 billion in stimulus funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will be available to states in the next 30 to 45 days. The first round of funding will help avert hundreds of thousands of estimated teacher layoffs in ...   MORE>>

FEB 11 -- ( WASHINGTON, DC ) – Today the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced its new educational website for parents, www.GetSmartAboutDrugs.com. The website was developed to be a resource for parents and caregivers to help them identify drug abuse, prevent children from using drugs, a...   MORE>>

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Raymond Simon visited W.W. Ashurst Elementary School on Marine Corps Base Quantico in Va. today to recognize the school's success as a U.S. Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary School (DDESS) and to announce the donation of more than 12...   MORE>>

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 15, 2008 - Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today traveled to Kentucky to recognize the state's schools as the first to lead through USDA's HealthierUS School Challenge for improved school nutrition, in celebration of National School Lunch Week.

"The impressive voluntary suc...   MORE>>

Continuing constraints in our capital markets have posed challenges for students and student lenders throughout the last year. We recognize that education is the foundation of a strong American workforce and we must not let challenges in our capital markets hinder our students' opportunities. Given ...   MORE>>

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced $1.3 million in NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) grants to five Gulf of Mexico recipients.

“This $1.3 million investment will help enhance and expand locally relevant, hands-on environmen...   MORE>>

Federal agencies have begun distributing more than 182,000 Public Alert Radios to preschools, Head Start programs, K-12 nonpublic schools and nonpublic school central offices, K-12 school district offices and post-secondary schools. In two earlier phases, the federal government distributed radios to...   MORE>>

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2008 – The latest GI Bill considerably improves the opportunity for today’s servicemembers to obtain their education, a senior Defense Department official said.

President Bush signed the Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Act of 2008 on June 30. The new law mirrors ...   MORE>>

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced new data from the states showing impressive gains for Reading First students. The achievement data submitted by state education agencies (SEAs) and compiled and analyzed by the Education Department's contractor, American Institutes for R...   MORE>>