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

At least 50 staffers were fired in Chicago or pushed out, including the entire Office for Civil Rights. The layoffs are part ...

Still, the state's superintendent of public schools said there would be a “much bigger impact” if Congress or the executive ...

Employees were told to leave the department's Washington, D.C., headquarters ahead of the layoffs and one-day building ...

The schools may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with an organization that gives doctoral students insight toward obtaining a Ph.D. but limits eligibility based on race.

The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s ...

SEATTLE — The Department of Education released a list of universities on Friday that are now under investigation for ...

Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Department of Education on Friday morning to protest mass firings and what some are ...

Washington state has joined a coalition of 20 other states in a lawsuit seeking to stop President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...

Washington — Staff at the Department of Education received a notice Tuesday instructing them to leave the building by 6 p.m. local time and informing them that all department offices in Washington, ...

The Department of Education initiated mass layoffs on Tuesday night, reducing its workforce by nearly 50%, sources told ABC News. The "reduction in force" notices began to go out at about 6 p.m.

After Congress established the Department of Education, the department's seven objectives in law are: Helping ensure access to equal educational opportunity for everyone. Support states, localities ...