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 ...

A lawsuit filed Friday alleges the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is unable to fulfill its mandated ...

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

Best I can tell, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Sen. Tommy Tuberville have the U.S. Department of Education in some sort of a ...

The former secretary of education says Congress should control of federal funds for schools back to the states.

While Trump has abolished other agencies by executive order, he can't end the Education Department on his own because Congress created it in statute.

Gov. Jared Polis’s proposal to eliminate averaging funding and related cuts would slash up to $150 million from school ...

The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced investigations into 45 higher education institutions for alleged civil rights ...

The federal office is investigating the Oklahoma school for for alleged "race-based scholarships and race-based segregation." ...

Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary for communications and outreach at the Education Department, shares his concerns about the state of the department.