Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Wednesday the federal shutdown is proof that her department should be eliminated, as the Trump administration is trying to do.  “The Democrat government

The Trump administration has already cut hundreds of other employees and hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher training and mental health grants.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs.

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools.

The Department of Education is flexing its power to repurpose discretionary funding to match President Donald Trump's priorities.

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to know.

A federal appeals court on Monday allowed the U.S. Department of Education to proceed with plans to lay off civil rights staff as it paused an injunction that the Trump administration said should have been removed after a U.

Top Trump administration officials are exploring the possibility of selling some of the student debt portfolio, which covers millions of borrowers, to the private market.

U.S. Justice Department officials have cited the federal shutdown in asking for multiple lawsuits between the Trump administration and California to be paused.