Secretary of Education Linda McMahon took office last year proclaiming a new era in state authority over K-12 policy and encouraging states to seek flexibility from “burdensome” federal requirements ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the conservative-majority Supreme Court for waving through some of Donald Trump’s more ...

Rep. Valerie Foushee's progressive challenger, Nida Allam, conceded in their high-profile Democratic primary in North Carolina.

The ferocity of U.S. and Israeli attacks has raised questions about whether the two countries are even attempting to minimize ...

The GOP's "big beautiful bill" made administrative tweaks expected to reduce enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplace by millions of people.

Professors are seen to wield absolute power, and when this power inevitably takes a sinister turn, that corruption is presented as a mere symptom of academe’s deeper rot. This trope has a life beyond ...

President Trump says Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will step down and be replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, following criticism of her leadership and immigration policies.

The U.S. Education Department is set to lay off over 1,300 employees as part of an initiative to reduce its workforce by half, a move that aligns with President Donald Trump’s broader strategy to ...

As the Trump administration dismantles the Education Department, the agency is pulling back on its role policing ...

A year ago, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept into the Department of Education and devastated its research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Nearly 100 contracts for ...

Lawmakers and education advocates at Wednesday’s press conference also emphasized that the department has hired back some employees, and Congress rejected many proposed funding reductions at Education ...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will resign at the end of March after just over a year in the role.