You're likely in the clear if your student loan debt is already wiped out, but current borrowers may soon be out of luck.

In a pivotal congressional hearing, Linda McMahon, President Trump's nominee for the Department of Education, outlined her ...

Pamela Brown speaks to CNN correspondent René Marsh and Attorney Adam Minsky about President Trump’s efforts to end the Department of Education and what it could mean for people with student loan debt ...

It seems like suddenly everyone is an "expert" on FERPA, an obscure privacy law that most of us had never heard of a week ago ...

Some student loan borrowers claimed on social media that Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has violated federal student privacy laws. Musk and his DOGE team have been examining ...

Linda McMahon, President Trump's education secretary nominee, wants to dismantle the department. What that means for ...

The U.S. Department of Education was created in 1979 by Congress. It employs 4,000 people and has a budget of $79 billion.

California received about $8 billion in funding for K-12 education and about $7 billion in funding for higher education in ...

What does the Department of Education do? To be clear, the federal department does not dictate what educators teach in the ...

Linda McMahon on Thursday sketched out how key functions of the Education Department could be carved up to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of dismantling the agency, vowing to “reorient” the ...

Current estimates show that the federal Pell Grant program will have a $2.7 billion funding shortfall later this year.