This week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released a statement saying it would cut nearly 50 percent of the department's workforce. These new layoffs occur at a moment when President Donald ...

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A group of Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump's administration from dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and halt it ...

Many of its most prominent programs were created by statute, too: The 1979 Department of Education Organization Act created the agency. The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides ...

Donald Trump has vowed to dissolve the Department of Education. Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters and former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan explain the potential impact of Trump ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democratic attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration over layoffs cutting nearly half of Education Department staff. The lawsuit alleges these cuts ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s staff – a prelude to President Trump’s plan to ...