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 ...

The Trump administration will return over $5 billion in previously withheld education funding to U.S. schools. $45 million of the returned funds will go to Kansas schools. The funds were initially ...

A group of school districts, educators, unions and advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, ...

Linda McMahon, secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, visited Little Rock on Tuesday on the first stop of a 50-state trek officially dubbed the “Returning Education to the States” tour.