After the Trump administration laid off half the Education Department staff, the lawsuit seeks to reverse the firings.

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond explained how reducing the Department of Education will affect Bay Area students, including college students and those in special education.

Employees at the Office of Civil Rights regional office in San Francisco are among those being cut as part of drastic changes at the United States Department of Education.

The employees being laid off started working remotely Wednesday and will go on paid administrative leave starting March 21.

The layoffs were the first step toward getting rid of the department altogether, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in an ...

California's education system fails Black students, with a six-decade gap in reading and math proficiency. The report calls ...

While some see the Department of Education as vital to ensure education access and quality, others say it’s a bureaucracy that must be abolished.

The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) – conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24 – surveys more than 35,000 Americans in all 50 states about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices along with ...

The U.S Department of Education has set a Friday deadline for K-12 schools, colleges and universities to eliminate race-specific programming or face potential federal funding cuts. California ...

Elizabeth Sanders, a spokesperson for the California Department of Education, emphasized that federal education funds “are appropriations made by Congress and would need to be changed by Congress, not ...

Many people in the post-Civil War South were hesitant about any federal organization involvement—especially the newly formed Department of Education, which dedicated efforts to educate formerly ...