In Iowa and across the country, educators are bracing for the possible closure of the U.S. Department of Education.

After two years of convincing, the Senate passed the Department of Education Organization Act on Sept. 24, 1979, with 69 ...

The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s ...

The National Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued warnings to 60 universities, including Cornell, on ...

Stacker examined partisan divides on public education using polling data from the Pew Research Center and relevant news ...

About 4,000 people worked for the Department of Education previously; following the cuts, roughly 2,000 workers remain there. The DOE is run by the Secretary of Education in the p ...

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take ...

After two years of convincing, the Senate passed the Department of Education Organization Act on Sept. 24, 1979, with 69 votes in support. A few days later, the House passed it, too, with 215 yes ...

While some see the Department of Education as vital to ensure education access and quality, others say it’s a bureaucracy that must be abolished.

Since the Department of Education ... also administers special education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, that seeks to ensure students with disabilities ...

Former President Carter signed the Department of Education Organization Act in October 1979, a cornerstone accomplishment in his presidency. However, the Department of Education has been around ...

The deep cuts across federal agencies since Donald Trump’s return to the White House include reductions in force, which mean ...