Seven of the civil rights agency’s 12 regional offices were entirely laid off, including busy hubs in New York, Chicago and ...

Borrowers are wondering what will happen to their loans and repayment plans if President Trump closes the Department of Education.

The U.S. Department of Education staff is set to be cut in half. Former officials and analysts are grappling with what it ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. His administration took a step toward ...

The Department of Education announced it was cutting about 2,000 staff members, seemingly the first step in fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to dissolve the agency entirely.

The U.S. DOE just laid off over 1,000 people - nearly half of its workforce. Schools and education experts worry about the ...

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

Experts warn borrowers should expect long waits, especially those with questions or disputes over their student loans.

There is a lot of confusion out there about what the federal agency does. For starters, the department doesn't control what ...

Blair Wriston, senior government-affairs manager at EdTrust, a research and advocacy organization focused on education equity, described this push as a "dual-track effort" that will "make college more ...

Since his first term in the White House, President Donald Trump has set his sights on shuttering the Department of Education.