The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in post-pandemic recovery. In a decade, Mississippi moved from 49th to seventh ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order aimed at closing the Education Department at the White House in March. Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images The Hechinger Report ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. It ...

Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies. By Michael C. Bender The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue ...

The Department of Education on Tuesday announced a further dismantling of the agency by transferring much of its remaining workload to other federal agencies in a bid to convince Congress the ...

WASHINGTON – Families and educators across the country were plunged into a state of uncertainty over the weekend after the federal Education Department laid off practically every staffer in the ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced a partnership Wednesday with more than 40 conservative organizations to create programming around civics aimed at the celebration of the 250th anniversary of ...

Section 1. Background. Although the Supreme Court of the United States has definitively held that consideration of race in higher education admissions violates students’ civil rights, the persistent ...

One federal grant program changed the trajectory of Joshua Sparks' life. Now, that program is at risk. As a teen, Sparks knew he wanted to go to college and become a teacher. But growing up in rural ...

In early April 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon had referred to artificial intelligence — AI — as "A1." The rumor spread on Facebook (archived), ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the Department of Education as much as she can, carving a path of legislative and legal ...