The standoff could test how far the White House is willing to go to press its demands on the nation’s schools.

It amounts to some of the most forceful opposition yet as the Education Department uses federal funding as leverage to enact ...

The White House has targeted colleges and K-12 ... The New York and Minnesota letters both cite past comments from Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary during his first term, extolling ...

"According to a White House fact sheet, the executive order ... In his first term, then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos asked Congress to significantly reduce the agency's budget.

A White House fact sheet said the order would direct ... During Trump’s first term, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sought to dramatically reduce the agency’s budget and asked Congress ...