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

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

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

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 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 Trump administration is considering selling parts of its $1.6 trillion portfolio of student loan debt to the private market, according to a new report—an unprecedented move that would build on its ...

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 ...

The Trump administration laid off 466 employees from the U.S. Department of Education amid a government shutdown. These layoffs affected the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, ...

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, ...