The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Donald Trump and his education ...

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

With a mass email sharing what it called “difficult news,” the U.S. Department of Education has eroded one of its own key ...

Long Island educators, parents and students worry that the staff cuts could impact special education and student loans.

At least 50 staffers were fired in Chicago or pushed out, including the entire Office for Civil Rights. The layoffs are part ...

The U.S. DOE just laid off over 1,000 people — nearly half of its workforce. Schools and education experts worry about the ...

An hours-long outage on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, has underscored the risks in ...

The Education Department’s civil rights office has been among the hardest hit by layoffs, with the Trump administration ...

Since the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has collected and analyzed data on education across the ...

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs ...

Three state governors, all former educators, derided the decision to terminate nearly half the federal agency's workforce.

The staff reductions are the latest effort by the Trump administration to decrease the federal government’s role in education ...