Employees were told to leave the department's Washington, D.C., headquarters ahead of the layoffs and one-day building ...

The sweeping cuts may bring an end to data collection the federal government has conducted for decades, denying Americans the ...

Attorneys general from 20 states joined the lawsuit to block President Trump's effort to dismantle the agency.

The staff reductions are the latest effort by the Trump administration to decrease the federal government’s role in education ...

If the department does fully shut down, student loans are not going away. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the ...

Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler joins WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss how these changes will impact education in Massachusetts.

Student loan borrowers and families applying for college will almost certainly be impacted by mass Department of Education ...

Experts worry Massachusetts will be "flying blind" on educating students. Here's how mass federal education layoffs will impact Mass.

A new lawsuit from Democratic attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia alleges this week’s mass layoffs at ...

Along with 20 state attorneys general, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell sued the Trump administration on ...

The mass layoffs, which halved the U.S. Education Department's workforce, resulted in dozens of Texas-based employees to lose ...

Education advocates, recently fired employees, and supporters are expected to gather Friday morning at the U.S. Department of ...