Six new deals shift major Education Department programs to other agencies. Here’s what it means for school funding, special ed and student aid.

A coalition of states that sued months ago to stop mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education is now also challenging ...

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff members who manage and enforce federal ...

The Education Department is raising internal concerns about its ability to offload its work to other agencies, documents prepared as part of the transfer process show, demonstrating potential ...

Leaders of the nation’s two largest teacher unions characterized the restructuring as a betrayal of students and families.

President Donald Trump's administration is pausing over $6 billion of congressionally-appropriated federal funding for after-school, student support, teacher training, English language and other ...

The National Congress of American Indians is calling on the U.S. Department of Education to immediately halt its planned transfer of Native-focused education programs to other federal agencies until ...

Some Republican lawmakers also want to ensure the federal government meets its legal obligations to students with disabilities as President Donald Trump seeks to shutter the agency.

Agreements with other departments will transfer many of the Education Department’s responsibilities to those agencies.

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s lagging academics — a solution that could free schools from the strictures of ...

Tribal leaders and education advocates say the Education Department failed to meet a legal requirement by not consulting with ...