The long-awaited directive comes as the agency is preparing to lay off likely hundreds of employees and just days after ...

A draft of an executive order reportedly instructs newly confirmed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to take all available steps “permitted by law” to close the sprawling department, which has ...

The judge had ruled that the administration was not complying with his previous order requiring the government to keep ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the ...

Shuttering the agency is unlikely as it would require congressional approval and some Democratic votes to break the Senate ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to dismantle the Department of Education, prompting concerns for ...

President Donald Trump could take the first steps this week to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, sources tell CNN.

President Donald Trump threatened to stop federal funding for schools that permit illegal protests following a wave of ...

Without Congress, President Trump cannot dismantle the agency. No modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a ...

With United States’ Education Secretary Linda McMahon confirmed as of Monday, the president’s team has drafted an executive order to end the department. It could be signed as early as Thursday, the ...