Roughly 1,300 Education Department staffers received layoff notices Tuesday, a Trump administration official said.

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

Trump's cuts to the Department of Education are part of a nearly long crusade by conservative Christian groups.

The Department of Education announced it was firing over 1,300 workers, slashing staff in half as part of Trump's aim to ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed his administration's efforts to lay off about half of the Education Department ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the ...

Returning education to the states will help to ensure that our public education system better meets students' needs.

Linda McMahon said Trump "certainly intends" to dismantle the Education Department. What would that mean for schools and ...

The president is expected to sign an executive order abolishing the department, fulfilling a long-held conservative fantasy.

The president’s apparent strategy is attempting to eliminate the agency on his own authority, while asking Congress to finish ...

The Education Department closed for the entirety of Wednesday, with officials citing security reasons, and will reopen Thursday with a greatly reduced headcount. Employees who will be let go will ...