Education Department: In a major victory for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court on Monday let it fire over 1,000 Education Department employees and functionally eliminate the agency. The department manages federal college loans, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools.

The Trump administration said the US Department of Education will no longer freeze $5 billion in funding. Will Kansas get its $45 million back?

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, has been advocating for the release of this particular funding. She says this will support programs that West Virginians use and rely on every day.

The department said it was examining whether universities that provide financial help for children who arrived in the country as undocumented immigrants are discriminating against U.S. citizens.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ACTFL condemns in no uncertain terms the elimination of nearly half of the staff of the United States Department of Education, as announced by the ...

Here are some of the ways in which the dismantling of the Department of Education could prove to be detrimental.

Colorado has joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over a freeze in essential education funding.

United States Department of Education U.S. Department Education investigates CPS over Black Student Success Plan The complaint claims the CPS is using the program to discriminate on the basis of race.

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that the United States has decided to exit the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.