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 ...

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

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

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s layoffs across the Education Department, ...

A day after the Department of Education made deep cuts expected to gut the agency, Trump said many of them weren't doing much ...

The U.S. Department of Education's workforce will be cut in half through layoffs rolled out Tuesday and buyouts over the past ...

Democratic attorneys general in Washington, D.C., and 20 states sued Thursday over the Trump administration’s efforts to lay ...

President Trump on Wednesday said Education Secretary Linda McMahon was behind the mass layoffs at the agency, not mentioning ...

As Trump begins dismantling the Education Department, student loan services, civil rights enforcement and funding for ...

Under Trump’s directive the Department of Education laid off half its staff. The lawsuit argues Trump has no authority to make such drastic changes.