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

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

The Department of Education cut half its workforce amid President Trump’s effort to abolish the agency. Trump touted the cuts ...

An hourslong outage on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, underscored the risks in ...

Advocates worry the federal government would not look out in the same way for poor students, those still learning English, ...

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

The U.S. Department of Education's workforce will be cut in half through layoffs rolled out Tuesday and buyouts over the past ...

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 office has been among the hardest hit by layoffs, with the Trump administration ...

The sweeping cuts may bring an end to data collection the federal government has conducted for decades, denying Americans the ...

A day after the Department of Education made deep cuts expected to gut the agency, Trump said many of them weren't doing much ...

The Department of Education's mass layoffs on Tuesday affected some 1,315 employees -- including civil servants around the ...