The city Department of Education spent $4 million in taxpayer funds to renovate a Brooklyn athletic field — then handed it to ...

President Donald Trump's proposal to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education could significantly alter the federal educational landscape. This controversial move raises the question: which agencies ...

President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications. The Republican president has argued the federal office hasn’t improved ...

The Department of Education plays a pivotal role in the US education system but may be best known for managing federal financial aid for millions of student loan borrowers. If you have federal ...

"It's upside-down world," one employee who was cut told ABC News. The Department of Education's mass layoffs on Tuesday affected some 1,315 employees -- including civil servants around the country ...

I’m heartsick over the latest executive order signed by President Donald Trump abolishing the U.S. Department of Education. While lawmakers in Congress must still sign off on Trump’s plan in ...

United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education in a bid to deliver on a campaign promise. The department has long been pilloried by ...

A draft executive order directs his newly confirmed education secretary, Linda McMahon, to prepare the department for closure, while acknowledging that actually dissolving it would require an act of ...

The district remained unconvinced until she invoked the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, known as IDEA, she said. The federal law, enforced by the US Department of Education ...

The US Department of Education on Tuesday said it was slashing its staff numbers by almost half, the opening gambit in a plan to dismantle a department that right-wing Republicans have long detested.

Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration laid off nearly half of the Department of Education division that handles civil rights investigations and shifted its focus.