The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass ...

WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump signed a megabill with his spending and policy priorities into law on July 4, he distanced himself from another one of his goals: dismantling the U.S.

The department runs Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, an $18-billion program which directs funds to school districts with a high percentage of children from low-income families.

While the funds were frozen, an informal alliance emerged between rural and big-city educators who pushed back against the ...

Millions of students return to school this month with a diminished Department of Education -- and many education leaders and ...

"My fellow Democratic attorneys general and I are taking legal action. And we have no plans to take our foot off the gas." ...

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights was hit particularly hard by the layoffs. Some 240 of the office’s employees were laid off, and seven of its 12 regional offices were shuttered.

Still, Mr. Trump’s education secretary, Linda McMahon, has been focused on what she has called the department’s “final mission.” ...

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to begin dismantling the Department of Education, allowing it to lay off nearly 1,400 employees. Education Secretary Linda ...

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The Department of Education currently manages about $1.6 billion in student loans belonging to almost 43 million Americans, primarily through the Federal Student Aid office.