Families and students are growing nervous about the fate of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) amid ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is having a meeting with House Democrats Wednesday over their concerns surrounding the ...

State education officials nationwide say the U.S. Department of Education is blocking access to tens of millions of dollars ...

The department has strikingly ineffective at reversing declining test scores over the last decade — but experts argue it ...

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be ...

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

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is heralding the Education Department layoffs as the “first step” toward shutting down the agency – an unprecedented move in federal education policy .

Washington state has joined 20 other states in a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump's executive order to dismantle the ...

Story continues below photo gallery. Neither Trump nor McMahon has made public statements about the layoffs and voluntary ...

Much is still unclear around what the potential ED layoffs mean for public education. Local districts and board set curricula in Michigan, not the federal or state departments. Cuts to the U.S.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively ...

Federal workers fired from the Department of Education pack up their belongings amid support from colleagues and advocates. Layoffs raise concerns about public education.