We want to close the federal Department of Education.”  But fulfilling that promise is easier said than done. Dismantling the agency – which provides billions of dollars each year to ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has argued that the government shutdown proves the Department of Education (ED) is not essential, noting that schools have remained open. Her remarks drew pushback ...

A vast majority of Americans do not believe the federal government should have control over education policy, according to a ...

Some Education Department employees were deemed essential, so colleges and universities will see little change once the ...

The Education Department is trying to use the government shutdown to further push for its own elimination. From an effort to lay off almost 500 more employees to messaging from Secretary Linda McMahon ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from laying off thousands of government employees, including nearly all of the workers in the Department of Education’s special ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws. By Sarah Mervosh and Michael ...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Education is in the early stages of recruiting another agency to help oversee federal special education programs, a spokeswoman said. The potential transfer of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the ...

Sweeping layoffs announced Friday by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for overseeing special education, ...