Eliminating the Department of Education could worsen racial inequities by cutting federal funding to poor schools.

Trump has said he wants school policy to be left to the states, but state officials and lawmakers aren’t clear on what that ...

"President Trump cannot shut down the US Department of Education through an executive order," student loan expert Mark ...

Linda McMahon, Trump's education secretary pick, has her confirmation hearing on Thursday amid reports of plans to shut down ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of closing the Department of Education comes after a long Republican-led push to ...

Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding ...

Danielle Conley, a partner at Latham & Watkins who leads the law firm’s anti-discrimination and civil rights practice, spoke ...

The Education Department has long been a target of conservatives. Over many years, presidential candidates, think tank ...

President Donald Trump described the $268 billion Department of Education as “a big con job” and “I’d like it to be closed ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary ... Trump said he wanted the Department of Education “closed immediately,” adding “it’s a big con job” and saying he believed ...

President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet level ...

A Senate committee has advanced the nomination of President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Labor.