Current and former employees at the agency spoke with The Nation about the chaos as 1,300 people were laid off on Tuesday.

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

Under Trump’s directive the Department of Education laid off half its staff. The lawsuit argues Trump has no authority to ...

Amid layoffs and a plan by Trump to close the U.S. Department of Education, a new dawn for students is coming. Will it be ...

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

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

Since President Trump took office, staffing at the Education Department has been cut in half, and he has been mulling an ...

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

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more ...

The Education Department has announced that half of its workforce will be fired. Here's what kinds of federal money Palm ...

Around 3,000 people work in the department's Washington headquarters, and about 1,000 are in 10 regional offices across the ...

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