For the past 30 years and with broad bipartisan support in Congress, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has funded competitive Ready to Learn (RTL) grants, authorized under the Elementary and ...

The CPB said that it was informed by the Department of Education on Friday that the 2020-25 Ready to Learn grant was being canceled, forcing it to inform PBS and 44 public media stations to pause the ...

PBS has furloughed some of its staff weeks after the Trump administration began a push to defund the public broadcaster. A PBS spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY that 25% of PBS Kids ...

The termination of the federal grant program, called Ready To Learn, resulted in a loss of $23 million that would have gone to educational programs. By Benjamin Mullin The White House effort to cut ...

As the Trump administration continues to try to defund NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said this week that the Department of Education has ended a federal grant that helped fund ...