What Does the Department of Education Actually Do?
Even as President Trump has vowed to close the Education Department, he has sought to use the agency’s powers. Dana Goldstein, a reporter covering education and families for The New York Times, ...
Teachers fear shuttering Department of Education will diminish vital programs
If the Department of Education is dismantled, as some Republican lawmakers are hoping to do, public school K-12 educators fear what programs could be impacted.
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Q&A: What does the U.S. Dept. of Education do and how does that impact California?
California received about $8 billion in funding for K-12 education and about $7 billion in funding for higher education in ...
Opinion
End the Department of Education
It is governed by impenetrable rules and mandates that burden schools, diminish teachers, and estrange education from the purposes it was meant to serve.
Trump’s education secretary may be asked to dismantle the Education Department. Here’s what it does
A plan being considered by the White House would direct the education secretary to dismantle the department as much as ...
Trump’s pick for education chief sketches a roadmap for dismantling the department
Republicans praise her business acumen and say she’s a good pick to change the course of American education. Sen. Bill ...