The Democratic Alliance raises concerns over the Gauteng Department of Education's significant budget cuts to Schools of Specialisation, arguing that this will hinder the development of critical ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for a plan to shut down of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades.

The Department of Education announced Tuesday it was firing nearly half of its workforce, the latest Trump administration move to shrink the federal government that could face swift legal challenge.

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump to continue with his plan to lay off 1,400 employees of the U.S. Department of Education and to move many of its functions to other ...

The Education Department is the main conduit for federal aid to public K-12 schools and a major lender to college students.

Four experts on public education in the US spoke to The Nation about how the dismantling of the Department of Education will hurt students immediately and in the years to come.

Home • News Department Of Education Cuts Workforce By Nearly Half As Trump Vows To Shut Down Agency "Reduction in force" notifications went out to 1,315 employees on Tuesday.

Several families are suing the US Education Department for what they call an "attack" on the department's Office for Civil Rights.

The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.

Since President Trump took office, staffing at the Education Department has been cut in half, and he has been mulling an executive order to close the agency.

Disability rights advocates said that any impediment to the department’s ability to enforce civil rights laws would cause widespread harm to the nation’s education system.