The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American's access to ...

What will resistance to Trump's education policy look like this time around? NPR hears from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

As president of the local school board by 1960, Carter read ... Carter’s secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, who did not want to lose one-third of his department’s portfolio.

This story was originally published on K-12 Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily K-12 Dive newsletter. Jimmy Carter, who as president on Oct. 17, 1979, signed the ...

By 1960, Carter had become president ... battles over the proposal to remove education from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, which he oversaw as secretary from 1977 until his ...

(At the time, education was buried in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, with programs scattered across several other agencies.) Colleges, meanwhile, were divided on the plan ...

In 1979, former President Jimmy Carter oversaw the creation of the modern U.S. Department of Education – an accomplishment the Biden administration has hailed as a hallmark of Carter's legacy in ...

The Florence City Council renamed Northwest and South parks for Mordecai C. Johnson and John and Silvia Lifty Jebaily despite ...

She opened clinics, worked to educate women about their reproductive health, and promoted an abortion technique she felt was ...