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

Since Trump took office, staffing at the Education Department has been cut in half, and he has been mulling an executive order to close the agency.

President Donald Trump’s push to hollow out the Education Department this week sparked fresh angst among student borrowers, ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. His administration took a step toward ...

The Department of Education announced it was cutting about 2,000 staff members, seemingly the first step in fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to dissolve the agency entirely.

The Education Department fired 1,300 employees concerning critics who have blasted the decision's possible effect on student ...

The Department of Education is facing a reckoning under US President Donald Trump. After spending months on the campaign ...

Another government agency could potentially handle student loans, but experts warn it could be a bumpy transition.

Trump is moving to cut the staff by half and dismantle the department. He’s also going after DEI in higher education and ...

President Donald Trump has laid off various staffers working at the Department of Education. As AFROTECH™ previously reported ...

Since his first term in the White House, President Donald Trump has set his sights on shuttering the Department of Education.