The Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.

Leaders of the nation’s two largest teacher unions characterized the restructuring as a betrayal of students and families.

A coalition of states that sued months ago to stop mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education is now also challenging ...

The judge's ruling blocks the government from firing half the DOE's workforce. A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from attempting to dismantle the Department of Education.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of his ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of his ...

Wanting to shutter the department is not the same as having the power to do it, which shows in the president’s recent actions that merely move functions to other agencies.

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