Retropolis Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last. Created in 1867, the short-lived office was mired in the ongoing American strife after the Civil War.

On Feb. 14, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education Craig Trainor issued a directive that all schools receiving federal funding rescind their Diversity, Equity ...

Senators from both parties challenged Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Tuesday about proposed cuts to college student aid ...

My first voting election was the one where Ronald Reagan called to abolish the Department that had just been created, by Jimmy Carter, as a gift to the National Education Association, in what he ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. The Department of Education announced that it was laying off half of its workforce on Tuesday, a move that Secretary of Education Linda McMahon called "the first step ...

President Trump is taking dramatic action Thursday to inch closer to fulfilling a nearly five-decade-old conservative dream of abolishing the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 ...

The U.S. Department of Education has long been a target for government downsizers. Created by President Jimmy Carter to fulfill a promise to the National Education Association, it has faced calls ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the reinstatement of nearly 1,400 fired federal workers at the Education Department, delivering a major setback for President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle ...

Under President Biden, the Department of Education canceled more than $167 billion in student debt for 4.75 million borrowers, about 10 percent of those who hold a federal student loan. Mr. Trump ...