Congress will ultimately decide whether the Education Department can be completely shuttered, but the Trump administration ...

Republican Senators take action to eliminate U.S. Department of Education and introduce bill to companion President Donald ...

States and communities invest 90% of public education funds and shoulder most responsibility. The Department of Education lingers in the background.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dissolve several functions of ED, including cutting funding and laying ...

The order mandates redistributing the department's functions across multiple federal agencies by the end of the year, marking a major change in how the federal government approaches education.

The dismantling of the Department of Education could shift significant educational responsibilities to states, impacting ...

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images A lawyer who previously worked in the department and focused on postsecondary education called the text of the HEA a “big blanket” protection for these kinds of functions.

U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach, criticized the Trump Administration's efforts to close the U.S. Department of Education.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon last month fired more than 240 OCR employees, almost 40 percent of the staff. Mark Perry, a ...