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

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

Civil rights attorneys in the Education Department responsible for the New York and New Jersey region were laid off by the ...

New York and other states sued U.S.E.D. over grant funding earmarked for training and recruiting teachers without warning.

The New York City Public School system is almost 95% funded at the state and local level. Still, that 5% of federal funding is equal to $2.2 billion.

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

The attorneys general of 20 Democratic states hit the Trump administration with a lawsuit over recent cuts to the Department ...

At least 800 education department research employees and outside partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and ...

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...

The lawsuit argues the cuts would harm students, especially those who are in low-income families or have disabilities.

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more effectively. The attorneys general called the layoffs “reckless and illegal.” ...

Governor Kathy Hochul’s current proposed state budget is $252 Billion, $93 billion of which is provided by the federal ...