The Department of Education was established in 1980 as a Cabinet-level agency by Congress, which has the sole power of ...

The lawsuit argues that since the Education Department was created (and funded) by Congress, it can only take an act of ...

Just days after President Trump signed an executive order to shut down the Department of Education, local officials are ...

The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...

The lawsuit argues that since the Education Department was created (and funded) by Congress, it can only take an act of Congress to end it — not an executive order from the president.

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with former Education Secretary John B. King Jr. about the dismantling of the education department ...

An executive order from President Trump set plans in motion for a potential U.S. Department of Education shutdown.

As lawsuits move forward to stop Trump's executive order to dissolve the Department of Education, Open the Books is taking a ...

Advocates say dismantling the department puts financial aid at risk, and pulls resources for poor and disabled students.

Mannion’s first bill in Congress --- looks to push back on the trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of ...

With the current administration’s aim to close the federal Department of Education (DOE), signaled by a March 20 executive order, local school and government officials are taking time consider what it ...

The Trump administration on Friday announced it has referred Maine's "noncompliance with Title IX" to the Department of ...