Early this month, the U.S. Department of Education issued an ultimatum to K-12 public schools and state education agencies: Certify that you are not engaging in discrimination under the banner of ...

President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The order directs Education ...

In what proponents say is a “simple cleanup” and opponents call an “unnecessary risk,” the Texas House and Senate education committees both are considering bills to expand college ...

He also said the administration's stance is an “abrupt shift” from the one taken by the first Trump administration, citing comments in 2020 made by then-U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that ...

"Today, we take a very historic action that ... In his first term, then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos asked Congress to significantly reduce the agency's budget. That move was rejected ...

Renowned economist Richard Vedder breaks down how the federal government is not serving students well and calls for education ...

The order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to weaken the agency, which oversees countless federal education grants, research and other programs, USA TODAY reports. However, the direction ...

By Bryce Fiedler In the wake of President Trump’s executive order aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, many have noted the obvious benefits of closing — or at least shrinking — this ...