President Trump took dramatic action Thursday to inch closer to fulfilling a four-and-a-half-decade-old conservative dream of abolishing the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 ...

NSW students returned to public schools ... on Monday to undertake training on “high potential and gifted education”. The Department of Education’s policy to “challenge” gifted children ...

The Education Department outsourced management of the exam, which saw hundreds of gifted students aiming to ... behaviour by a lot of parents.’’ A NSW Police spokesman said police were called ...

All told, the Department of Education has failed to achieve any of the purposes for which it was created. It’s increased costs across the board and done nothing to improve education outcomes.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised sweeping changes to federal agencies, but there’s one he wants to do away with altogether: the Department of Education. Closing the department — an ...

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is cutting roughly half the U.S. Department of Education's workforce through a combination of mass layoffs and voluntary buyouts, administration officials ...

What Does the Education Department Do? President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise Thursday when he signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Department of Education and returning ...

The Trump administration is working toward its promise of eliminating the U.S. Department of Education. On Tuesday evening, the department released a statement saying it would cut nearly 50% of ...

President Donald Trump inherited a U.S. Department of Education with 4,133 employees, according to the administration's own numbers. Nearly 600 workers have since chosen to leave, by resigning or ...

The Education Department had a roughly $200 billion budget for 2024. About 71% of the budget went to grants and loans for students pursuing higher education. Another 25% of the department’s ...