Four experts on public education in the US spoke to The Nation about how the dismantling of the Department of Education will ...

Less clear is what could happen with a more lofty part of its mission — promoting equal access for students in an American education system that is fundamentally unequal. The department has cut ...

Judge Myong J. Joun granted an injunction against the Trump administration, which blocks the Trump administration’s mass ...

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday temporarily reinstated hundreds of Education Department workers laid off by the ...

Almost from the moment it was created in 1979, the U.S. Department of Education has faced calls for its elimination from conservatives, who have argued that it gives the federal government too much ...

Judge Myong Joun halted President Donald Trump's mass firing at the Department of Education on Thursday, ordering the ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from attempting to dismantle the Department of Education.

Progressives should stress adequate funding, smartly spent, not reflexive support for a bureaucracy and department that some ...

What the Department of Education Does and Doesn’t Do Created in 1979 as a cabinet position under President Jimmy Carter, the Education Department disburses Title I funds to elementary and ...

The equity goal of the Education Department, which was created by Congress in 1979, emerged partly from the anti-poverty and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The act creating the ...

The Education Department Was Created to Ensure Equal Access. Who Would Do That in Its Absence? As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested ...