Since its founding in 1979, the DOE has overseen federal education policy, administering funding to states and school ...

With the proposal to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, (DoED) we should review the importance of the agency. It has unique functions that would be difficult for individual states to ...

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images A lawyer who previously worked in the department and focused on postsecondary education called the text of the HEA a “big blanket” protection for these kinds of functions.

Efforts to dismantle the Department of Education came to a head on March 21, when President Donald Trump signed an executive ...

Here is a look at some of the Education Department's key functions, and how Trump said he might approach them.

President Donald Trump issued Executive Order entitled Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and ...

The order mandates redistributing the department's functions across multiple federal agencies by the end of the year, marking a major change in how the federal government approaches education.

President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications.

Most area superintendents did not respond to a request for comment or simply said the impact is still too uncertain for them ...

We can do that effectively while moving the Department of Education’s useful and legitimate functions to other agencies. The Department of Defense should compensate school districts which ...