WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter June 4 urging Columbia University's accreditor to rescind its century-old accreditation status, which the Ivy League school relies on ...

Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that two agencies in New York violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act because of a ban on Native American mascots.

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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 ...

Whose job is it to educate Americans? Congress created the first Department of Education just after the Civil War as a way to help reunify a broken country. A year later, it was basically shut down.

The Department of Education (DOE) has found that two New York agencies violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act after they banned Native American-inspired mascots and logos, a finding uncovered ...

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.

Ad Policy. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2025. (Andrew Thomas / Getty) This story was produced for ...

About 4,000 people worked for the Department of Education previously; following the cuts, roughly 2,000 workers remain there. The DOE is run by the Secretary of Education in the president's cabinet.

The Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education was halted in court Thursday, as a federal judge blocked the government’s efforts to move its operations to other agencies ...

Former Education Department officials spoke with FedScoop about those concerns, including the future of data collection, retention and dissemination; the lack of transition plans in place; disruptions ...

(TNND) — Education Secretary Linda McMahon talked about the administration’s efforts to dismantle her federal department and how the changes will affect students during a fireside chat ...