For parents of kids with disabilities, advocating for their child can be complicated, time-consuming — and expensive. Changes ...

After the Department of Education gutted nearly 50% of its workforce, educators have expressed deep concern -- not only for ...

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

UC Davis education policy professor Kevin Gee says these federal dollars are used to help the most vulnerable.

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

Since the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has collected and analyzed data on education 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.

Hundreds of users reported FAFSA outages to Downdetector starting midday Wednesday, saying they were having trouble ...

Host of HBO's 'Real Time' Bill Maher on Friday's show told his panelists that he is skeptical of the Department of Education, ...

The Department of Education was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter. Mr Trump says abolishing it will send education back to the ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.

California and other Democratic states allege Trump's cuts amount to an illegal shutdown of the Education Department's ...