KEY TAKEAWAYS The Department of Education closed online applications for Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans and loan ...

President Trump believes that the bureaucracy in Washington should be abolished so that we can return education to the states ...

Here’s where things currently stand with the Department of Education, and what student loan borrowers and prospective college ...

Linda McMahon, President Trump's nominee to become secretary of education, appeared before senators on Thursday.

Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding ...

A group of unions representing current and former federal workers sued the Trump administration to block the sharing of ...

Republican states are embracing the idea of a future with no federal Department of Education, preparing plans for its ...

President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would call for the secretary to submit a proposal to diminish the ...

A plan being considered by the White House would direct the education secretary to dismantle the department as much as legally possible while asking Congress to abolish it completely. McMahon ...

What the education secretary does: The education secretary leads one of the smallest federal agencies, the Department of Education. The agency safeguards the civil rights of students with ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of closing the Department of Education comes after a long Republican-led push to ...