The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal ...

New York City Public Schools have taken the federal government to court in a dispute that could reshape how protections for transgender students are enforced nationwide. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in ...

New York City Public Schools filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday over its move to cut $47 million in promised grants in response to the schools' policies regarding ...

Officials from New York City's Department of Education appeared in front of a federal court judge Thursday. They defended improvements they say they've made in providing special education services to ...

A coalition of Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia announced a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education regarding the end of Obama-era ...

Sept. 26 (UPI) --The Trump administration has halted funding to three public school districts -- in Chicago, Fairfax, Va., and New York City over their diversity policies. The Department of Education ...

Despite spending a staggering $4 trillion since it was established, the department has done nothing to meet its original ...

The new complaint is aimed at changes the Trump administration would make to shift significant functions from the department to other federal agencies.

A governmentwide reduction in force during the federal shutdown will touch an already lean U.S. Department of Education, the Trump administration said Friday, with the department’s office of ...