The Latest Breaking News from Education Department

More education dollars are funding more bureaucrats, who, by and large, are not improving student outcomes.

For parents of kids with disabilities, advocating for their child can be complicated, time-consuming — and expensive

An hours-long outage on StudentAid

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Tuesday that large-scale staffing cuts at her department are a step toward ending its operations.

‘This is not a turn off the lights and walk out of the department,’ the newly confirmed education secretary says

Trump has tasked Linda McMahon with shutting down the Education Department, a move that would require congressional approval.

In an overhaul of an agency President Donald Trump has described as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists,” the Education Department cut $600 million in grants to teacher training programs, which it characterized as supporting divisive ideologies

The department insists its directive will not suppress First Amendment rights.

Linda McMahon confirmed as head of Education Department, expected to bring innovation and accountability to U.S. education policies.

The health department also asked employees to respond to a request for information about their recent accomplishments from DOGE, changing its previous stance that allowed them to ignore the request without consequences. Employees were told to submit their responses by midnight.