The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Donald Trump and his education ...

A new lawsuit from Democratic attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia alleges this week’s mass layoffs at ...

The suit from 20 states and the District of Columbia comes two days after the federal agency fired more than 1,300 employees.

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

More than a dozen schools, including Harvard, MIT, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, have frozen hiring.

The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s ...

The Trump administration slashed half of the Education Department's workforce on Tuesday. Here's a look at the offices and ...

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

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

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s sweeping layoffs across the ...