Department of Education staff will receive “reduction in force" notices Tuesday, and nearly half of the staff will be terminated, Fox News Digital has learned.

President Donald Trump has been talking about abolishing the Department of Education for a while and last week he signed an executive order directing it to be wound down. As with many of the ...

The Department of Education on Tuesday announced it is cutting its workforce by nearly 50% as the Trump administration proceeds with its plans to dismantle the agency. "Today's reduction in force ...

In the business world, companies that spend billions without achieving measurable success collapse. In government, there is no accountability for agencies like the Department of Education.

Workers at the Department of Education have cried foul as the Trump administration has moved to pare it down. AP. That assessment is used to gauge how students across the country are performing in ...

The U.S. Department of Education is headed for some major changes, with the department cutting its workforce by nearly 50% as the Trump administration proceeds with its plans to dismantle the agency.

Donald Trump appears to be nearing a long-touted executive order to abolish the Department of Education. Here is what the agency does for US schools.

The Education Department does not run schools. That's up to individual states and local school districts. The agency reporting to the U.S. president, however, oversees federal education funding ...

The Education Department, the smallest cabinet-level department in the federal government, is responsible for the $1.6 trillion federal student loan program and a range of grants for K-12 schools.

An American flag and a tattered U.S. Department of Education flag fly outside the federal office building, amid reports that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will take steps to defund ...

The department also provides 13.6% of funding for public K-12 education, according to the Education Data Initiative, sending funding streams that include Title I—which describes federal ...

And there’s the rub. A president could, in theory, get rid of the Education Department, but most presidents, including Trump, can’t and don’t want to get rid of the things it does.