FOIA to Education seeking Secretary DeVos’ personal emails concerning agency business in light of the Inspector General’s findings that the Secretary has used personal email for agency business and has not properly preserved all such records.

Department of Education records regarding stays at the DeVos-owned Amway Grand and GOP-affiliated Grand Hotel. AO requested these records to determine whether DeVos was using her position to personally profit through her hotel ownership and whether she was funneling government funds to GOP allies. These records cover July through September 2017.

Supreme Court decisions, limits on FOIA, and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's D.C. landlord.

Records from the Department of Education regarding reimbursements given to appointees for expenses such as payments associated with travel, airfare, lodging, meals, or any payments made via government-issued charge cards or travel during the 35-day government shutdown which began in December 2018.

FOIA to Education seeking records reflecting communications between the agency and the White House Counsel staff regarding congressional oversight in light of the administration's unprecedented efforts to resist oversight.

American Oversight is investigating the extent to which federal agencies are following the lead of the president in defying legislative branch oversight.

The Department of Education's Office of Communications and Outreach and Office of the Deputy Secretary stated that it had no records of communications with outside groups like State Policy Network, Goldwater Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.

Last week, the Department of Education’s student lending arm radically changed the landscape of a planned billion-dollar contract in a move that tips the scales for Navient, one of the nation's largest student loan servicers.

FOIA to Education seeking communications and other records related to the decision to change the consumer protection disclosure requirements from disclosing legal proceedings in the from the last 7 years to the last 5 years. The decision was likely made to benefit student loan servicer Navient, which settled a case 5 years and one month ago.

Like many norms in the Trump era, the prohibition on federal employees engaging in political activity while at work has been routinely tested by this administration.