President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order dismantling the federal Department of Education. Republican calls for abolishing the department date to the Reagan era. They view ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the Department of Education as much as she can, carving a path of legislative and legal ...

A preliminary executive order calling for the elimination of the Department of Education has been drafted for President Donald Trump, as reported by USA TODAY. Trump has long touted ending the ...

WASHINGTON − Teachers, parents and students may be wondering what might change on college and K-12 campuses, amid the bluster from the Trump administration about shuttering the Department of ...

This logic rarely applies in government, but we're in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education—which has long exemplified the sunk-cost fallacy with past investments motivating ...

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office. By Michael C. Bender and Dana Goldstein Reporting from Washington ...

The United States survived for two centuries without a federal Department of Education and could do so again. In the 45 years the department has existed, students haven’t made much progress.

Since the Department of Education was established in 1979, the cabinet-level agency operating under the executive branch has been at the center of debate over the federal government’s role in ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday which he said will “eliminate” the Department of Education, though the department will still keep some functions, including Title I ...

Department of Education staff will receive "reduction in force" notices Tuesday before nearly half of the department's workforce is terminated, Fox News Digital has learned. Earlier Tuesday, a ...

Trump signed an executive order Thursday instructing U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps needed to close the department "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law." ...