President Trump has issued an executive order to close the Department of Education, which will reshape federal education policy and affect 49.5 million students.

President Donald Trump kicked off the process of dismantling the Department of Education by signing an executive order on ...

In his platform, Trump promised to close the department “and send it back to the states, where it belongs.” Trump has cast the department as a hotbed of “radicals, zealots and Marxists” who overextend ...

If we are serious about strengthening American democracy, we must push for meaningful reforms in civic education.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dissolve several functions of ED, including cutting funding and laying ...

The department’s core duties put it on the Trump administration’s endangered species list: Give money to help teach ...

States and communities invest 90% of public education funds and shoulder most responsibility. The Department of Education lingers in the background.

Republican Senators take action to eliminate U.S. Department of Education and introduce bill to companion President Donald Trump's March executive order.

President Donald Trump has ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin the work to dissolve the Department of Education, fulfilling a key Project 2025 goal that serves to undo one of Jimmy Cart ...

His new executive order aims to start shuttering the agency — which he can’t legally do without Congress. Here’s what’s next.