More than 600 positions have been eliminated from the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid office, internal ...

Some cuts include attorneys and specialists in the department's regional civil rights and Federal Student Aid offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and the Kansas City region.

After the Education Department slashed its workforce in half last week, current and former staffers are uncertain key ...

The Department of Education has many different and varied responsibilities under its current formation and governs many ...

Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...

The Department of Education (ED) has come under scrutiny from President Donald Trump, who has argued its authority should be ...

The U.S. Department of Education has become a large federal agency that interferes with decisions best made at the state and local levels. The department, created as part of a political deal, has ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” that attempts to dismantle the Department of ...

Which means the Education Department will soon be roughly half the ... according to the FedScope federal workforce database. A revised department organizational chart obtained by NPR shows that more ...

The U.S. Department of Education is swamp politics at its finest: create a bureaucracy without a clear purpose, let it grow unchecked, and then stir up panic at the suggestion of reining it in.