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

A lawsuit filed Friday alleges the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is unable to fulfill its mandated ...

The former secretary of education says Congress should control of federal funds for schools back to the states.

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

Still, the state's superintendent of public schools said there would be a “much bigger impact” if Congress or the executive ...

Best I can tell, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Sen. Tommy Tuberville have the U.S. Department of Education in some sort of a ...

The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Education on Friday said its office for civil rights is investigating 45 ...

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more ...

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including more federal layoffs and ...

The Thursday lawsuit said laying off nearly 2,000 people at the department will hurt schools and universities across the ...

The mass layoffs, which halved the U.S. Education Department's workforce, resulted in dozens of Texas-based employees to lose ...