States and communities invest 90% of public education funds and shoulder most responsibility. The Department of Education ...

The Senate Finance committee voted 7-4 to advance Senate Bill 836, which would require public schools to verify the legal ...

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming made the claim this month as support for the Trump administration targeting the agency ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order expressing his desire to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Dismantling the agency requires Congressional action, but Trump has ...

The Tennessee Governor was in attendance Thursday as President Donald Trump made good on his promise to attempt to eliminate the department. Here's what he had to say.

the Department of Education lingers in the background, writing rules, tying strings, and expanding its reach in classrooms from Tennessee to California. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

Tennessee's Grow What You Know conference aims to empower women in agriculture with a day of learning and networking.

But the next steps are complicated, and the department's actual role in education - including at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville - isn't as simple as one might think. How has the ...

"They want education to come back to them, to come back to the states, and they're going to do a phenomenal job." Sponsor Message But Kevin Huffman, who led Tennessee's Department of Education ...

According to the order, the department aims to "return education authority" to the states, despite state and local districts already being in charge of curriculums. In 2023, Tennessee received ...