President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department.

President Trump is expected to sign an order on Thursday to launch the Department of Education’s dismantling. A White House ...

Roughly half of the Education Department's staff was recently let go, amid President Donald Trump's stated plan to outright ...

Kennedy Jr is off to a turbulent start as US health secretary as he grapples with a deadly measles outbreak, resignations ...

The mass layoffs, which halved the U.S. Education Department's workforce, resulted in dozens of Texas-based employees to lose ...

Attorneys general from 20 states joined the lawsuit to block President Trump's effort to dismantle the agency.

If the department does fully shut down, student loans are not going away. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the ...

The Department of Education's mass layoffs on Tuesday affected some 1,315 employees -- including civil servants around the ...

The sweeping cuts may bring an end to data collection the federal government has conducted for decades, denying Americans the ...

Employees were told to leave the department's Washington, D.C., headquarters ahead of the layoffs and one-day building ...

Gov. Maura Healey said some academic services would "go away" if President Trump dissolves the Department of Education.

But that brings the focus back to the first part of the order: directing the new education secretary to identify places in the department Trump can cut on his own – or at least transfer to other ...