President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday seeking to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

Christopher Gray, a longtime New York Times columnist, had one unusual request before his death: he wanted to become a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon that aims to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

The 47-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November, drawing hundreds of visitors and becoming a citywide phenomenon, has found a permanent home at a Wasilla museum. Remains of ...

Last week, the newly reformed office was gutted. James Kvaal, Biden’s top higher education official, was alarmed to learn ...

The legal challenge comes in the wake of mass layoffs at the department, which, along with some voluntary departures, ...

In levying those complaints, Trump and other Republicans have often relied on data from the Education Department's research arm, a branch the administration has reduced to a skeleton staff ...

Trump has, instead, instructed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to dismantle it from within, transferring as much authority as possible back to the states while maintaining a skeleton crew to ...

Cathryn Belt, the STEAM facilitator at Kennedy Academy in South Bend, was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in ...

The Education Department’s civil rights office ... employees point out an inherent contradiction in their new directives. “With a skeleton crew staff and direction to act on one category ...