The federal Department of Education has fewer employees than many mid-sized local school districts. School policies and curriculum are set at the local and state levels, and most of the funding ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education ... in Arizona Surrounded by children seated at school desks in the White House on Thursday ...

which are free to all public school students through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The executive order also directs McMahon to ensure that programs receiving federal support “terminate ...

The future of the United States Department of Education is at risk, as efforts to eliminate it gain momentum. Changes under President Donald Trump‘s administration seemed inevitable, given his ...

The StudentAid.gov website was down for several hours last week as the remaining department staff tried to troubleshoot an outage. School meal programs are funded by the U.S. Department of ...

Also, rural and smaller school districts rely on the Department of Education for technical assistance and for the implementation of the Title I grants and other programs, she noted. “It’s very ...

FARGO — Leaders of local school districts indicate it’s too soon to tell how their students might be affected by wholesale changes in the U.S. Department of Education, but they are paying ...

The department "was founded in part to guarantee the enforcement of students’ civil rights,” Scott said. “Champions of public school segregation objected, and campaigned for a return to ‘s ...

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said President Trump told students “he doesn’t give a damn about them” with a recent move against the Department of Education.

Hours before President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at closing the Education Department, his press secretary acknowledged that the administration cannot do this on its own.