Lawmakers are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week 2025 by paying tribute to the educators who helped them ascend to Congress.

Trump has made cuts that some teachers say could impact their profession in a “huge way,” according to educators in terminated programs who spoke with ABC News.

"GMA" takes a look at the public health crisis in Milwaukee, where students at several public schools may have been exposed to dangerous levels of lead.

Starting Monday morning, collections will resume on federally-backed student loans in default, impacting millions of Americans.

ABC News' Phil Lipof breaks down what you need to know as federal student loan payments resume. According to the Department of Education, five million account holders will have payments right away.

The school is now firing back at President Donald Trump's threats to end its tax-exempt status, which is granted to thousands of universities across the country.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a $1 billion voucher program into law

The president is escalating threats against the university as a new battle shapes up over his 2026 budget proposal.

Jillian Berman, the assistant managing editor for MarketWatch, joins ABC News Live to discuss why student loan payments are resuming and how borrowers can be prepared.

Andrew Pentis, the principal loans writer for Bankrate, discusses the impacts borrowers will face once mandatory student loan collections begin on May 5 by the federal government.

Defaulted college loans will be sent for collections starting on May 5.

Roughly 5 million borrowers will have their loans sent for collections beginning May 5, according to the United States Department of Education.

Starlee Coleman, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, discusses the case involving a Catholic school in Oklahoma.

In what would be a landmark case, the Supreme Court appeared inclined to clear the way of the nation’s first church-run public charter schools.

Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears ready to clear the way for creation of the nation’s first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars.

A Catholic school in Oklahoma is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for it to become the nation's first religious charter school funded directly by taxpayers. ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports.

A 180-year-old private Christian university in South Carolina is closing at the end of the semester after failing to raise $6 million to keep its doors open

ICE is reinstating the status of some international students whose records they terminated on a Department of Homeland Security database, court records suggest.

While a New Hampshire judge blocked enforcement for schools related to groups that brought a lawsuit, a Maryland order broadly blocks enforcement of a DOE memo.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Save Our Schools campaign is launching a comprehensive investigation into the Trump administration's effort to close the Department of Education.

She says she wants to hear from those directly "hurt by Trump's dangerous agenda."

Author George M. Johnson's New York Times Bestseller book "All Boys Aren't Blue" is not allowed in some school libraries as the Supreme Court weighs rights to opt out of LGBTQ books in public schools.

Some 5 million Americans with defaulted student loan payments will have their loans sent for collections on May 5, the Department of Education announced on Monday.

Some 5 million Americans with defaulted student loan payments will have their loans sent for collections on May 5, the Department of Education announced on Monday.

Angel Ortiz was accepted into seven Ivy League schools. His advice for other high schoolers applying to college: Don't do anything just for the sake of impressing institutions.

New Jersey high school student Angel Ortiz is celebrating after receiving not one, but seven acceptances into Ivy League universities.

The Department of Homeland Security is demanding "detailed records" on Harvard University's student visa holders, according to a statement from the department.

ABC News’ Jon Karl has the latest on reports that the IRS is now considering whether to pull the university’s tax-exempt status after the institution rejected the Trump administration’s demands.

The White House is suggesting that Harvard University should lose its tax-exempt status if it does not comply with a series of demands from President Donald Trump's administration.

Barack Obama praised Harvard for its rejection of President Donald Trump's demands as the university faces a funding freeze for alleged inaction on antisemitism.

The Trump administration has frozen more than $2 billion in federal grant money after Harvard University rejected a list of government demands, including overhauling hiring and admission practices.

Top Score Writing founder and CEO Lisa Collum offers advice on how parents and teens can make the process more manageable.

Over 1,300 federal employees impacted by the Department of Education’s March 11 reduction in force received their official separation notices Thursday.

Sleep-deprived college students drank dangerous amounts of caffeine while preparing for finals.

Hundreds of students from some of the largest schools in the D.C. area will rally outside the Department of Education Friday to oppose the gutting of the agency.

Hundreds of students from some of the largest schools in the D.C. area will rally outside the Department of Education Friday to oppose the gutting of the agency.

The Supreme Court issued an order Friday allowing the Trump administration to move forward with cancellation of federal funding for teacher training initiatives.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon interrupted a press conference by House Democrats to give an impromptu statement after they met in a closed-door meeting.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon interrupted a press conference by House Democrats to give an impromptu statement after they met in a closed-door meeting.

Elizabeth Warren is launching a "Save Our Schools" campaign against Donald Trump and Linda McMahon's attempt to dismantle the Department of Education.

The show, which premiered on Netflix in March, is a gripping four-part drama series from the U.K. that explores the loss of adolescence and the complexities of youth.

The Trump administration has revoked a number of student visas. What are their rights?

Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong is stepping down, according to the university.

Dozens of emotional Department of Education employees took part in a final "clap-out" in D.C. after losing jobs amid the Trump administration's agency restructuring.

Since Trump eliminated nearly half of the Department of Education's workforce through an overhaul that affected roughly 2,000 people, former employees say there is chaos.

Todd Warner and other Trump supporters in Tennessee express their fears for public schools as the president moves to eliminate the Department of Education.

ABC News’ Alexis Christoforous discusses the executive order which puts the Small Business Association in charge of handling student loans.

President Donald Trump said Friday that the SBA will take on student loans and HHS will take on special needs and nutrition efforts.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, weighs in on how gutting the Department of Education could affect students and fundamentally change education in America.

The executive order has sparked concerns about the future of American education while President Donald Trump claims that reforms will help provide funding in a more cost-effective way.