Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman (D) said Sunday that she is concerned about the Department of Education’s disassembly in the wake of President Trump signing an executive order seeking to ...

I took office as secretary of Education with a mission unlike any of my predecessors: to oversee the responsible and permanent closure of the very department I now lead. This is not a routine ...

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said President Trump told students “he doesn’t give a damn about them” with a recent move against the Department of Education. “Today ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday which he said will “eliminate” the Department of Education, though the department will still keep some functions, including Title I ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a long-anticipated executive order seeking to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, which he said was "45 years in the making." "We're going to ...

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it was laying off thirteen hundred employees of the U.S. Department of Education, in addition to the hundreds of workers who had already ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order that attempts to begin the dismantling of the Department of Education. But since only Congress can officially abolish the ...

The economist Milton Friedman wrote that nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. It's true that once an agency is funded and fills its cubicles with bureaucrats, advocates treat ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Bill McGurn and Kim Strassel. Photo: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg News/Saul Loeb/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Trump ...

President Donald Trump's Thursday executive order dismantling the U.S. Department of Education leaves wide open questions about whether the legal rights of students with disabilities will be ...

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President Donald Trump will need Congressional approval to fully dismantle the department, but he has already made significant cuts to its budget and staff. The federal government provides ...