Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to close the federal Education Department. But dismantling the agency wouldn't be easy.

The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration altered employees’ email messages to add partisan ...

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track and ...

In a series of stories over the coming days, we will lay out numerous examples of how President Donald Trump has implemented ...

The Education Department is trying to use the government shutdown to further push for its own elimination.   From an effort ...

A vast majority of Americans do not believe the federal government should have control over education policy, according to a ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from laying off thousands of government employees, including nearly all of the workers in the Department of Education’s special ...

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws. By Sarah Mervosh and Michael ...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Education is in the early stages of recruiting another agency to help oversee federal special education programs, a spokeswoman said. The potential transfer of ...

Sweeping layoffs announced Friday by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for overseeing special education, ...