President Donald Trump's nomination to lead and dismantle the United States Department of Education, Linda McMahon, is set to go before a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. This comes as educators ...

Linda McMahon, the US education secretary, has a uniquely fateful task: President Donald Trump wants her to be the last ...

In a sweeping executive order signed Thursday, President Donald Trump called on Education Secretary Linda McMahon “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” of the Education Department.

It follows about a month of demonstrations taking place at the department. Crowds of college and high school students representing student governments from some of the largest schools in the ...

On Monday, the Republican-led Senate voted to confirm Linda McMahon as the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. McMahon, a former professional wrestling magnate who led the U.S. Small ...

The Minnesota Department of Education confirms that a man who briefly served as an audit director at the agency left that job on June 27, just as questions were being asked about his conviction for ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Education Department, fulfilling a yearslong pledge to dismantle the federal agency, the White House confirmed.

The Trump administration is considering dismantling the Department of Education, per the Wall Street Journal—a move that could have significant implications for institutions of higher education like ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced it will withhold $350 million of congressionally approved funds to minority-serving colleges and universities and divert the funds elsewhere, saying that the ...