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In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to essentially abolish the department she runs. "Closing the Department of Education would ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren urges Department of Education inspector general to probe DOGE's access to student loan data ahead of first meeting with Secretary Linda McMahon.
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.
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 ...
The U.S. Department of Education announced an immediate end to the liquidation of COVID-19 relief funds, impacting Mississippi's education system. Mississippi could lose $137 million in funding ...
Recent outrage over the Trump administration’s efforts to “ gut ” the Department of Education reflect a misplaced panic. The panic has intensified in the wake of Trump’s signing of an executive order ...
President Trump has issued an executive order to close the Department of Education, which will reshape federal education policy and affect 49.5 million students.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to dismantle the Department of Education.
With President Donald Trump signing an executive order kicking off the process of eliminating the Department of Education, parents of disabled children fear they will lose federal protection and ...
Trump administration effort to wind down the Education Department could lead to frustration for millions of student loan borrowers, experts say.
President Trump is taking dramatic action Thursday to inch closer to fulfilling a nearly five-decade-old conservative dream of abolishing the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 unde… ...
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.