Education Secretary Linda McMahon has argued that the government shutdown proves the Department of Education (ED) is not essential, noting that schools have remained open. Her remarks drew pushback ...

More than 5 million college students receive Pell Grants yearly, with these grants helping them save up to nearly $6,000 ...

Now that the shutdown is over, we are emboldened to fulfill President Trump's promise to return education to the states, Secretary McMahon writes.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Wednesday sought to use the government shutdown as leverage in the Trump administration’s battle to dismantle her department. President Donald Trump and McMahon ...

The Education Department is trying to use the government shutdown to further push for its own elimination. From an effort to lay off almost 500 more employees to messaging from Secretary Linda McMahon ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from laying off thousands of government employees, including nearly all of the workers in the Department of Education’s special ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws. By Sarah Mervosh and Michael ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the ...

Sweeping layoffs announced Friday by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for overseeing special education, ...