More than 1300 workers have been let go, cutting the agency roughly in half. The White House says it is just the first step in dismantling the department. “What we did today was take the first step to ...

Advocates worry the federal government would not look out in the same way for poor students, those still learning English, ...

According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another ...

With massive layoffs at the Department of Education, many are left wondering about the impact on local schools.

President Donald Trump's pledge to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education is in full swing.Tuesday evening, the department laid off over 1,300 staff members ...

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent warning letters to 60 schools, threatening federal funding if they do not protect Jewish students.

Education Department Chief Information Officer Thomas Flagg told employees that entire units under this supervision have been “dissolved.” ...

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

Joe Murphy, whose position as a management and data analyst was eliminated when the Department of Education laid off nearly ...

Louisiana’s top education official weighed in on the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to lay off more than 1,300 ...

Virginia’s venerable federal legislators, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and, for this area, U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for ...