Advocates for dismantling the Department of Education argue for local control and efficiency, while critics highlight risks ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws. By Sarah Mervosh and Michael ...

Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and ...

This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced agreements to shift a number of functions within the department to four other federal agencies. In a statement on the Department of Education’s ...

President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon have called on the Republican Congress to disperse the Department of Education’s programs to other federal agencies. As described ...