The Education Department deals with managing loans, financial aid and some funding, but does not develop curriculum or ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.

While Trump has abolished other agencies by executive order, he can't end the Education Department on his own because Congress created it in statute.

The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of ...

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s layoffs across the Education Department, ...

The lawsuit alleges the layoffs are so severe the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory ...

Current and former employees at the agency spoke with The Nation about the chaos as 1,300 people were laid off on Tuesday.

A group of attorneys generals from mainly Democratic-led states said the cuts would decimate the agency.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell joined several state attorneys general in suing the Trump administration ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has talked about trying to find common ground with President Donald Trump. But she blasted some of his ...

The former secretary of education says Congress should control of federal funds for schools back to the states.

Democratic attorneys general in Washington, D.C., and 20 states sued Thursday over the Trump administration’s efforts to lay off nearly half of the Education Department workforce. Earlier ...