President Trump has signed an executive order calling for the Department of Education to be closed down, but his ability to ...

U.S. universities, including 2 in Va., are under investigation for antisemitism, a move some say suppresses free speech, ...

Since it was created in 1979, the Education Department has enjoyed enough bipartisan support to keep it in business, with ...

The president blamed the department for America’s lagging academic performance and said states will do a better job.

If we’re serious about improving education, it’s time for a thoughtful, commonsense discussion about winding down the Department of Education altogether.

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that ... Learn more about Ed Lab. Washington state faces a child care crisis: high-quality child care programs can be prohibitively expensive, government ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, attends a hearing of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a ...

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Tuesday that large-scale staffing cuts at her department are a step toward ending its operations, as ordered by President Donald Trump.

A little later, starting at timestamp 22:20, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Tuesday that half the Department of Education's workforce, about 2,000 employees, will be cut through ...