The Education Department's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering ...

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

President Donald Trump will speak at the Justice Department Friday about his administration's plans toward "restoring law and ...

Twenty states and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration over its cut of over 1,315 ...

The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it has opened an investigation into Duke University for allegedly violating ...

Vota anticipated a big shakeup at his firm, Humentum, which was predominantly funded by federal grants, and estimated that it ...

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

Democratic state attorneys general sued to block the Trump administration from dismantling the department, or laying off roughly half of its staff.

More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s ...

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

For the second time in a week, Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing President Donald Trump over his firing of federal employees, after the federal administration cut the U.S. Education Department’s ...