The Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10. Reporter The Department of Education is shifting a number of its responsibilities to other federal agencies—a move that ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When reduction-in-force notices went out ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has taken a major step to dismantle the agency. The Trump administration announced a rapid acceleration of its efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education ...

When U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon claimed in USA TODAY that the recent government shutdown showed “how little the Department of Education will be missed,” she overlooked the damage done to ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education on Oct. 10 laid off over 460 employees, dramatically reducing the workforce of a beleaguered agency that is already struggling to serve students on the ...

Two groups that advocate for public schools are gathering in front of the North Carolina General Assembly Wednesday. Public ...

Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...

The Trump administration unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday to sidestep Congress and outsource large pieces of the U.S. Department of Education, telling lawmakers and staff that it would shift work ...

Susan Popkin has a brother-in-law who was kept out of traditional education until high school. David Bateman has a brother-in-law who couldn’t enroll for the first 17 years of his life. These stories ...

(Charlie Riedel, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) December 2 marks Special Education Day in the United States, a day to celebrate the ...