ALBANY — New York is seeking to halt President Donald J. Trump’s plan to scale down and eliminate the federal Department of ...

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more ...

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Federal Student Aid ...

The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Trump and his education ...

The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s ...

Shuttering the agency is unlikely as it would require congressional approval and some Democratic votes to break the Senate ...

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

President Donald Trump announced recently that roughly half of the Education Department's staff was being cut, amid his ...

It's truthfully hard to know which of those funding streams is at greatest risk because it's very unclear what is happening,” ...

The New York City Public School system is almost 95% funded at the state and local level. Still, that 5% of federal funding ...

Educators and advocates worry that mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education will impact services for some of the ...

Long Island educators, parents and students worry that the staff cuts could impact special education and student loans.