Concern about the funds is growing now that staffing at the agency has been cut by nearly 50% — from 4,133 to 2,183.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...

The day after the U. S. Department of Education laid off more than 1,000 workers — slashing nearly half its staff — local ...

Since the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has collected and analyzed data on education across the ...

At least 800 education department research employees and outside partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and ...

The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Donald Trump and his education ...

An hours-long outage on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, has underscored the risks in ...

The Department of Education cut half its workforce amid President Trump’s effort to abolish the agency. Trump touted the cuts ...

The Education Department’s civil rights office has been among the hardest hit by layoffs, with the Trump administration ...

At least 50 staffers were fired in Chicago or pushed out, including the entire Office for Civil Rights. The layoffs are part ...

Advocates worry the federal government would not look out in the same way for poor students, those still learning English, ...

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