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.

The attorneys general of 20 Democratic states hit the Trump administration with a lawsuit over recent cuts to the Department ...

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

A new lawsuit from Democratic attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia alleges this week’s mass layoffs at ...

The schools may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with an organization that gives doctoral students insight toward obtaining a Ph.D. but limits eligibility based on race.

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.

ALBANY — New York is seeking to halt President Donald J. Trump’s plan to scale down and eliminate the federal Department of ...

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 ...