Current and former employees at the agency spoke with The Nation about the chaos as 1,300 people were laid off on Tuesday.
The lawsuit alleges the layoffs are so severe the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory ...
Twenty states and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration over its cut of over 1,315 ...
The former secretary of education says Congress should control of federal funds for schools back to the states.
While Trump has abolished other agencies by executive order, he can't end the Education Department on his own because Congress created it in statute.
Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists M. Gessen, Tressie ...
The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness ...
Trump signed an executive order that rescinds 19 executive actions issued by Biden. He rescinded orders focused on gender, ...
President Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate the Department of Education and leave school policy to the states has raised ...
For his seventh week in office, President Donald Trump continued to rumble through Washington, D.C., stirring up not just the ...
Senate Democrats’ decision to allow Republicans to pass a spending bill will avert a short-term shutdown, but it will also give Republicans the power to grant President Donald Trump new leverage to ...
The Education Department deals with managing loans, financial aid and some funding, but does not develop curriculum or accredit schools.