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

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

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

While Trump has abolished other agencies by executive order, he can't end the Education Department on his own because Congress created it in statute.

For his seventh week in office, President Donald Trump continued to rumble through Washington, D.C., stirring up not just the ...

On Tuesday, Education Department officials said the agency’s workforce would be cut roughly in half, with over 1,300 workers ...

Senate Democrats’ decision to allow Republicans to pass a spending bill will avert a short-term shutdown, but it will also give Republicans the power to grant President Donald Trump new leverage to ...

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

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

Financial markets were in a tailspin after Trump fired thousands of federal employees and slapped tariffs on imports. Here's what could come next.

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

Some student-loan borrowers have just a few payments left until they get Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Trump might put ...