The Department of Education announced on Wednesday new investigations into five universities over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals scholarships, which the agency argued are discriminatory. The universities being investigated are the University of Louisville,

The email from the department indicated that the five programs were paused for review. Funding for the programs was approved and allocated by Congress in March, but the OMB has frozen the funds.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon wants Congress to use small bills to dismantle the Department of Education, she told The Daily Signal.

An HKS expert in education policy outlines how schools, students, and states might be affected if the DOE is dismantled.

The Trump Administration can push through with its plans to dismantle the Department of Education after the Supreme Court allowed it to continue laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

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The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is investigating scholarships at UM and four other institutions, including Western Michigan, after complaints from a Rhode Island foundation alleged they illegally exclude "American-born students.

The Education Department is first and foremost a civil rights agency, protecting access to education for students with disabilities and students who have historically been underse