The state's education commissioner oversees day-to-day operations of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which regulates public and charter K-12 schools, among other duties.

The department has been strikingly ineffective at reversing declining test scores over the last decade — but experts argue it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, the bar association for immigration attorneys began receiving inquiries from a couple students a ...

If you want to know what a ransom note looks like, read the letter the Department of Education sent to the storied ...

Local universities have faced a steady stream of blows under the Trump administration—from sudden visa cancellations to funding cuts.

Tensions are rising across American academia as the Trump administration froze over $2 billion in multi-year grants and ...

Connecticut does not get as much federal funding as some others, but towns and cities with higher concentrations of low-income students rely more heavily on those grants.

Shasta County schools stand to lose millions of dollars if the Trump administration follows through on dismantling the U.S.

Trump's executive order trying to dismantle the Education Department is "unlawful," according to a lawsuit from the second largest teacher's union.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights recently launched an investigation into UMass Amherst for alleged discrimination involving shared ancestry — which is under Title VI of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency ...

In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research ...