The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to ...

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump ...

In late March, Education Secretary Linda McMahon recorded a video to announce an investigation into Maine school districts ...

The ACLU is fighting to protect the use of disparate impact liability, a critical tool in advancing equality, as the Trump ...

The U.S. Department of Education has weakened one of its core duties, abolishing more than half of the offices that investigate civil rights issues raised by students and families, ProPublica reported ...

The Education Department is trying to use the government shutdown to further push for its own elimination. From an effort to ...

The Trump administration is cutting another 466 federal workers from the Department of Education, including staff who oversee funding that supports children with disabilities and low-income students.

The exterior of the U.S. Department of Education building is pictured on Oct. 11, 2025, in Washington. The agency on Tuesday told more than 250 office for civil rights employees they've been laid off, ...

The layoffs wiped out the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which ensures children with disabilities ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...

On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at narrowing civil rights protections and directing ...