The lawsuit alleges the layoffs are so severe the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory ...

Still, the state's superintendent of public schools said there would be a “much bigger impact” if Congress or the executive ...

The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of ...

Around 200 protesters chanted and held signs to protest President Donald Trumps cuts to the U.S. Department of Education, as ...

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

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

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

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

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, in a statement announcing his participation in the lawsuit, said the Education ...

They are strategic, internal-facing cuts that will not directly impact students and families,” a spokesperson for the ...

The schools may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with an organization that gives doctoral students insight toward obtaining a Ph.D. but limits eligibility based on race.

Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Department of Education on Friday morning to protest mass firings and what some are ...