Trump can’t move programs from one agency to another without congressional approval. The law requires oversight of IDEA to be done at the Department of Education, and Congress would have to amend existing law or create an entirely new one in order to shuffle programs around. Dismantling the department entirely would also require an act of Congress.

A group of House Democrats met with Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon Wednesday to discuss how her agency will function after drastic cuts were made by the Trump administration.

President Trump made good on a pledge by signing an order to dismantle the Department of Education. The department has been a target since it was created more than four decades ago. But President Trump and other Republicans want to go all the way this time,

President Donald Trump of the United States will sign a long-anticipated executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, acting on a key campaign pledge. It was gathered that even before it was signed,

President Donald Trump called for a shutdown of the United States Department of Education in an executive order signed on March 20.

Thursday's order was a first step "to eliminate" the department, Trump said at a signing ceremony ... considers to be bloated and inefficient. Education has long been a political lightning rod in the United States. Conservatives favor local control over ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, which Education Secretary Linda McMahon earlier acknowledged was her top priority.

Nearly $42 million in pre-approved projects for over two dozen school districts in Michigan has been pulled by the United States Department of Education (DOE), according to State Superintendent Dr. Michael F.

President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education has many speaking out about how it could affect school programs.

Defenders of the Department of Education are turning to the courts to save it after President Trump signed an executive order to abolish it and on Friday said he would move some of its most