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

A new lawsuit argues that recent layoffs undermine the office’s ability to investigate complaints of discrimination from all ...

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — In her first hours as the new Education secretary, Linda McMahon wasted no time informing U.S. Education Department employees in an email titled “Our Department’s Final Mission” of her ...

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown says the move to gut the department is illegal and will negatively impact ...