US President-elect Donald Trump has long voiced his intention to close the US Department of Education, calling it inefficient and overly controlling. Trump’s plan, detailed in his Agenda47 and ...

The Department of Education provides about 10% of K-12 funding, enforces civil rights laws and runs the $1.6 trillion student ...

The Department of Education announced Wednesday that the Owasso school district in Oklahoma violated Title IX due to sexual harassment in its schools, a finding that comes months after the death ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised during his campaign he'd shut down the Department of Education, complaining that the agency's budget is too large and that its staff is filled with "people ...

This whole debate lands differently in 2024, since Trump’s first term provided ample evidence that he was genuinely committed ...

One of the key promises President-elect Donald Trump made while campaigning for the White House was to abolish the US Department of Education. The federal agency, established in 1979, oversees ...

There are two parts to this claim: whether the U.S. currently ranks 24th worldwide in education and whether its ranked first ...

“For those of us concerned about the red tape the Department of Education creates, how we address those rules and conditions is the bigger question,” said Frederick Hess, a senior fellow and ...