Some Education Department employees were deemed essential, so colleges and universities will see little change once the government reopens. Policy experts are less confident that laid-off employees ...

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 ...

President Trump on Wednesday signed a government funding bill to officially end the longest shutdown in history after 43 days. The Senate voted earlier this week, 60-40, to pass a bill to fund ...

As the partial government shutdown persists amid partisan gridlock in Washington, D.C., Education Secretary Linda McMahon pointed out that the shutdown demonstrates that her department is not ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Education is in the early stages of recruiting another agency to help oversee federal special education programs, a spokeswoman said. The potential transfer of ...