President Trump is expected to issue an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take the necessary steps to shutter the department, according to multiple reports. The ...

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

In 1979, former President Jimmy Carter oversaw the creation of the modern U.S. Department of Education – an accomplishment ...

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

Closing the U.S. Department of Education could cost Palm Beach County Schools tens of millions and curtail or eliminate a swath of services.

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

The U.S. Department of Education manages college loans, seeks to prevent discrimination and sends more than $1.6 billion ...

Florida students’ low scores on the recent National Assessment for Educational Progress shows state leaders have much to do.

At Marysville Elementary School in Southeast Portland, about 40 children, parents and PAT union members, including president ...

Congressman Don Davis invited the vice chair of the Greene County School Board to President Donald Trump's address to ...

PolitiFact fact-checked DeSantis’ statements about Florida’s insurance rates, workforce, education policy and gun laws. For ...

Experts spoke with Education Week about the potential challenges and opportunities an official U.S. language creates.