The administration "cannot dismantle the Department of Education," several states argued in a new lawsuit claiming ...

About 4,000 people worked for the Department of Education previously; following the cuts, roughly 2,000 workers remain there. The DOE is run by the Secretary of Education in the p ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job.” Since Trump took office, staffing at the Department has been cut in half, and he has ...

The department is also terminating leases on buildings in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland.

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

In an email earlier this month to the agency's staff entitled "Our Department's Final Mission," McMahon wrote that her goal is to "restore the rightful role of state oversight in education and to ...

Educators in Central New York are growing uncertain about what will happen now that the U.S. Department of Education plans to ...

The Empire State ranks among the bottom 20 states in this decline, despite having the most expensive public schools in the ...

DAVID. EDUCATORS WE TALKED WITH ARE WORRIED THAT DISMANTLING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WILL HURT VULNERABLE STUDENTS THE MOST. AND HERE’S SOMETHING THAT COULD IMPACT EVERYONE. STATE AND LOCAL ...

As President Donald Trump seeks to shut down the U.S. Department of Education ... put new restrictions on funding for charter schools. In 2022, when Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was the state ...

Because the department was created by Congress, Trump cannot close it on his own. McMahon, the new education secretary, acknowledged that at her confirmation hearing. More: Trump's education ...

New York is seeking to halt President Donald J. Trump’s plan to scale down and eliminate the federal Department of Education. The state joined a lawsuit filed Thursday with 19 other attorneys general ...