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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Hundreds of users reported FAFSA outages to Downdetector starting midday Wednesday, saying they were having trouble ...

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

A new lawsuit argues that recent layoffs undermine the office’s ability to investigate complaints of discrimination from all ...

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

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