President Donald Trump kicked off the process of dismantling the Department of Education by signing an executive order on Thursday. The move aims to fulfill a longstanding campaign promise and ...

Combining layoffs and other types of departures, the Trump administration has trimmed the department's workforce from 4,133 to 2,183 workers since the term's start. The Office for Civil Rights has ...

Still, the Trump administration has acknowledged that the Education Department has some important responsibilities such as its work on student loans and administering Pell Grants that it wants to ...

Trump’s “directive to me, clearly, is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we’ll have to work with Congress, you know, to get that accomplished,” McMahon said after the ...

Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees local 252 — the union representing around 2,000 department workers — slammed Trump’s order as “nothing more than an ...

President Donald Trump has ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin the work to dismantle the Department of Education. An executive order that was ceremoniously announced on Thursday ...

Trump said his administration wants to shut down the Department of Education “as quickly as possible,” adding “we want to return our students to the states,” though it would ultimately ...

As President Donald Trump signs an executive order aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education ... and pay for social workers and other non-teaching roles in schools.

“The Department of Justice already has a civil rights office, and I think that there is an opportunity to discuss with Attorney General Bondi about locating some of our civil rights work there ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start dismantling the Department of Education. “It sounds strange ...

Trump acted on his campaign promise to undo the department which he has called wasteful, and send education work back to the states. The president said the US spends the most per pupil but ranks ...