Around 3,000 people work in the department's Washington headquarters, and about 1,000 are in 10 regional offices across the ...

The Department of Education has laid off half of its employees as the Trump administration continues reducing the federal workforce. That includes shutting down the Dallas regional office.

After Congress established the Department of Education, the department's seven objectives in law are: Helping ensure access to equal educational opportunity for everyone. Support states, localities ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the ...

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take ...

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.

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be ...

Live updates and the latest news as U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum kick in and the Senate turns to a government funding ...

Education Department Chief Information Officer Thomas Flagg told employees that entire units under this supervision have been “dissolved.” ...

The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in Philadelphia is one of seven such offices to be shut down nationally as part of the sweeping cutbacks and layoffs being carried out in the ...