President Trump has vowed to dissolve the Education Department. Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters and former Education Secretary Arne Duncan explain the potential impact of Trump’s plan.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said all the critical functions of the Department of Education will remain, ahead of President Trump signing an executive order to dismantle the ...

On Thursday afternoon, the president did, in fact, sign an executive order designed to start the process of closing the department. NBC News reported: President Donald Trump signed an executive ...

President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order dismantling the federal Department of Education. Republican calls for abolishing the department date to the Reagan era. They view ...

Trump signed an executive order Thursday instructing U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps needed to close the department "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law." ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to dissolve the Education Department, a long-sought goal of some conservatives.

President Donald Trump's Thursday executive order dismantling the U.S. Department of Education leaves wide open questions about whether the legal rights of students with disabilities will be ...

The president is still facing several civil suits related to Jan. 6, though his Justice Department is trying to prevent this approach to accountability. By Steve Benen In the recent past ...

I took office as secretary of Education with a mission unlike any of my predecessors: to oversee the responsible and permanent closure of the very department I now lead. This is not a routine mission.

President Donald Trump kicked off the process of dismantling the Department of Education by signing an executive order on Thursday. The move aims to fulfill a longstanding campaign promise and ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended his allies Friday while calling for his perceived political opponents to be jailed during a speech at the headquarters of the Justice Department ...

As the Department of Education announces that it is cutting its workforce in half, laying off thousands of workers, some people are wondering: What does the Department of Education do? The layoffs ...