Although most Illinois public school students test below grade level in reading and math, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is touting his administration’s record spending on public education. Pritzker addressed the ...

Amid layoffs and a likely order by Trump to close the U.S. Department of Education, a new dawn for students is coming. Will ...

Advocates worry the federal government would not look out in the same way for poor students, those still learning English, ...

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 ...

The U.S. Justice Department will focus on hiring prosecutors in offices near U.S. borders to enforce President Donald Trump's ...

Since the Department of Education was established in 1979, the cabinet-level agency operating under the executive branch has ...

President Trump has said he wants to do away with the department, and in her first hours as education secretary, Linda ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Changes are coming to the Department of Education under the Trump administration and whether it closes or is significantly downsized, its role in defending civil rights for ...

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management from sharing the personal information of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Trump ...

Today, the Department of Education is the site of our strongest national commitments to equal opportunity for school-age children. This wasn’t always the case. For much of its early history ...