On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” that attempts to dismantle the Department of ...

Linda McMahon, Donald Trump's education secretary pick, has her confirmation hearing on Thursday. It comes amid statements from Trump that he'd like to dismantle the Department of Education. The ...

The department is a cabinet-level agency that oversees the national education policy of the US. It was formed in 1979 by Congress, prompted by former Democratic President Jimmy Carter.

Nearly 2,000 Education Department staffers were fired under Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency efforts to slash spending and purge the federal workforce. That’s roughly ...

Congress created the Department of Education, and only Congress can abolish it. Under the potential Executive Order, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the President would seek ...

The department oversees about 100,000 public and 34,000 private schools in the United States, though a majority of public ...

The Education Department has been a source of political controversy since its creation in 1980 during Jimmy Carter’s presidency. President Ronald Reagan, who was first elected that year, called ...

Under President Biden, the Department of Education canceled more than $167 billion in student debt for 4.75 million borrowers, about 10 percent of those who hold a federal student loan. Mr. Trump ...

President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference with Linda McMahon, then the head of the Small Business Administration, on March 29, 2019, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.