The U.S. Department of Education should be shuttered, and essential functions should be woven into other existing government departments.

Colorado has joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education to prevent the freezing of federal education funds vital for diverse and underserved students.

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.

"Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the General Counsel (OGC) opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) after a review of the university's foreign reports revealed inaccurate and incomplete disclosures," the DOE said in a news release.

The U.S. Education Department said Friday it will release some frozen funds supporting after-school and summer programs.

"It's going to reduce the number of teachers, it's going to reduce the ability for us to make evidence-based changes.”

Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) and nine other Senate Republicans have signed a letter asking the Office of Management and Budget to release Department of Education funds to states, which are currently being withheld for review.

The U.S. Department of Education has emerged as central in the struggle over control of the power of the purse in the nation’s capital.