With the proposal to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, (DoED) we should review the importance of the agency. It has unique functions that would be difficult for individual states to ...

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images A lawyer who previously worked in the department and focused on postsecondary education called the text of the HEA a “big blanket” protection for these kinds of functions.

Efforts to dismantle the Department of Education came to a head on March 21, when President Donald Trump signed an executive ...

President Donald Trump issued Executive Order entitled Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and ...

The order mandates redistributing the department's functions across multiple federal agencies by the end of the year, marking a major change in how the federal government approaches education.

The push to dismantle the Department of Education is almost as old as the department itself. Republicans have pushed to ...

We can do that effectively while moving the Department of Education’s useful and legitimate functions to other agencies. The Department of Defense should compensate school districts which ...

President Donald Trump ultimately needs Congress to shut down the Department of Education. So he will continue to use it for certain purposes in the meantime.

Students, educators, and elected officials joined to speak at the State Capitol after President Donald Trump signed an ...