Some believe the layoffs are a way to force the special education law to be managed by some other federal office.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Education Organization Act on Oct. 17, 1979. The ...

Brown and MIT have also rejected the proposal, which would have given the White House influence over the universities' ...

Teacher April Wilson, who works with visually impaired students, works with a student at Bond County Early Childhood Center ...

An earlier version of this story reported that Riverstone Academy was a charter school. Because it is authorized by the Education ReEnvisioned BOCES, it is considered a contract school rather than a ...

The Education Department has opened the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the 2026–27 school year, even as ...

The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump ...

Photo by Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images The Department of Education has sent mass emails to student loan borrowers who have made the number of payments required to receive ...

The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats. By Eileen Sullivan and Michael C. Bender Reporting from Washington Some furloughed ...

WASHINGTON – On the first day of the government shutdown, official email accounts at the U.S. Department of Education began sending out-of-office messages pointing fingers at Democrats for the funding ...

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