Since the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has collected and analyzed data on education across the ...

The Department of Education was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter. Mr Trump says abolishing it will send education back to the ...

Amid threats to dismantle U.S. Department of Education, Michigan joins lawsuit challenging federal agency job cuts.

The Trump administration slashed half of the Education Department's workforce on Tuesday. Here's a look at the offices and ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued the Trump administration over the firing of nearly half of all workers at the ...

The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more ...

Colorado's Attorney General has joined 20 other states in suing the president's administration to stop what they call the ...

New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut won’t be reappointed to a third term as the top official overseeing ...

A group of attorneys generals from mainly Democratic-led states said the cuts would decimate the agency.

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