The Education Department's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering ...

A new lawsuit argues that recent layoffs undermine the office’s ability to investigate complaints of discrimination from all ...

Employees were told to leave the department's Washington, D.C., headquarters ahead of the layoffs and one-day building ...

Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Department of Education on Friday morning to protest mass firings and what some are ...

Washington state has joined a coalition of 20 other states in a lawsuit seeking to stop President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the ...

Trump administration announced March 11 that it would fire about 50% of the federal Department of Education's staff.

Washington — Staff at the Department of Education received a notice Tuesday instructing them to leave the building by 6 p.m. local time and informing them that all department offices in Washington, ...

After Congress established the Department of Education, the department's seven objectives in law are: Helping ensure access to equal educational opportunity for everyone. Support states, localities ...

President Donald Trump announced recently that roughly half of the Education Department's staff was being cut, amid his ...

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown says the move to gut the department is illegal and will negatively impact ...