Mr. Trump has long teased the possibility of closing the Department of Education, and he could be closer to making good on his pledge. Since taking office, the president has signed several ...

Republican states are embracing the idea of a future with no federal Department of Education, preparing plans for its Trump-promised demise and voicing confidence their own agencies can pick up ...

The Education Department made department-wide cuts on Wednesday, including in its civil rights office, according to multiple sources familiar with the move, a day after President Trump said he'd ...

That's what appears to be happening to Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump's pick for education secretary. Her role would lead the department that oversees schools, collects student data ...

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the Department of Education, is facing funding cuts as it cancels more than 160 contracts. The American Educational Research ...

Read Education Week’s follow-up coverage on the cancellation of Education Department contracts. The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would begin the process of eliminating the Department of Education, and the Department of Government Efficiency is already in the ...

An independent research arm within the U.S. Department of Education is being all but shut down, employees of the department say. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for ...

Dozens of contracts with the Education Department’s research and statistics arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, were suddenly terminated Monday, jeopardizing efforts to provide the public ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education moved to terminate nearly $1 billion in research contracts on Monday, a decision critics said depleted the government of vital data sources on ...

The nixed contracts support the Institute for Education Sciences at the Education Department, known as IES, and inside the agency, staff questioned whether the cuts were legal, much less justified.

The Department of Education oversees $1.6 trillion of student loans. The Trump administration is gearing up for major changes to the Department of Education, which, among its other functions ...