UC Davis education policy professor Kevin Gee says these federal dollars are used to help the most vulnerable.

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

After the Department of Education gutted nearly 50% of its workforce, educators have expressed deep concern -- not only for ...

As the U.S. Department of Education shrinks following massive layoffs at the agency, President Donald Trump and his allies ...

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

Current and former employees at the agency spoke with The Nation about the chaos as 1,300 people were laid off on Tuesday.

Since the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has collected and analyzed data on education across the ...

The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Donald Trump and his education ...

The Department of Education was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter. Mr Trump says abolishing it will send education back to the ...

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s layoffs across the Education Department, ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.

Still, the state's superintendent of public schools said there would be a “much bigger impact” if Congress or the executive ...