The Thursday lawsuit said laying off nearly 2,000 people at the department will hurt schools and universities across the ...

Current and former employees at the agency spoke with The Nation about the chaos as 1,300 people were laid off on Tuesday.

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more ...

President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon are determined to dismantle the Department of Education.

Opinion: Although the US President has broad executive authority, he cannot dismantle a Cabinet agency created by law, such ...

The attorneys general of 20 Democratic states hit the Trump administration with a lawsuit over recent cuts to the Department ...

Nearly half of all US Education Department employees have been laid off in the "first step" of Trump's dismantling of the ...

Long Island educators, parents and students worry that the staff cuts could impact special education and student loans.

The mass layoffs, which halved the U.S. Education Department's workforce, resulted in dozens of Texas-based employees to lose their jobs.

President Donald Trump announced recently that roughly half of the Education Department's staff was being cut, amid his ...

A majority of voters are against President Trump’s plans to close the Education Department, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.   The survey released Thursday found 60 percent of ...