Closing the department would mean redistributing each of those duties to another agency ... but a federal judge undid those protections. While the Education Department does not directly accredit ...

What does it mean? DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posed in front of El Salvador prisoners wearing $50k watch Trump shrunk the office overseeing financial aid and student loans. These charts show how.

So what exactly does the department do? The department distributes some federal grants for programs such as the Title I program for high-poverty K-12 schools and another program for special education.

So what exactly does the department do? The department distributes some federal grants for programs such as the Title I program for high-poverty K-12 schools and another program for special education.

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 ...

Chris Ogden is a Senior Research Fellow with The Foreign Policy Centre, London. University of Auckland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata ...