The economist Milton Friedman wrote that nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. It's true that once an agency is funded and fills its cubicles with bureaucrats, advocates treat its ...

Lawmakers, union leaders and education officials say shifting programs out of the department risks losing expertise, adding ...

The Department of Education is shifting a number of its responsibilities to other federal agencies—a move that education ...

Disability advocates alarmed by the Trump administration’s plans for special education say a recent meeting with Education Secretary Linda McMahon did not alleviate what one participant described as ...

President Donald Trump will sign an order Thursday to start dismantling the Department of Education, fulfilling an election ...

The U.S. Department of Education plans to end discretionary grant programs for a slew of minority-serving institutions, officials announced Wednesday—after Congress had already appropriated hundreds ...

The Department of Homeland Security, according to the Treasury Department, spent $89.290 billion. The Department of Justice spent $43.995 billion; and the Department of Education spent $268.353 ...

Terence P. Jeffrey is investigative editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation. In fiscal 2024, when President Joe Biden was still in office and the federal government was running a $1.8 trillion ...

Today the Trump administration announced its latest plans to try and dismantle the United States Department of Education. The proposed changes were met with opposition by many education advocates.

More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter submitted Dec. 12 to the Department of Education on concerns about the department’s proposal to omit post-baccalaureate nursing degrees from the ...

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press/Bombardier ...