President Trump signed an executive order Thursday ordering the Department of Education to begin wrapping ... but much more importantly, it’s a common sense thing to do, and it’s going to ...

After laying off half of the workforce, Trump has directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dissolving the department Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

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 ...

Even Common Core, an attempt to standardize teaching material across many states in an effort to better prepare students for college or the workforce, wasn't a Department of Education project.

As the main conduit for federal aid to public K-12 schools and a major lender to college students, the Education Department’s work directly or indirectly affects millions of American families. Here ...

Last week, President Trump did what conservatives have wanted to do since the 1980s: He signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education ... by serving as a common yardstick ...

President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications. The Republican president has argued the federal office hasn’t improved ...