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Education Department will release some frozen grants supporting after-school and summer programs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school ...

This Education Department Official Lost His Job. Here’s What He Says Is at Risk

"It's going to reduce the number of teachers, it's going to reduce the ability for us to make evidence-based changes.” ...

Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with Department of Education layoffs—what it means for student loan borrowers

The Department of Education laid off roughly 1,400 employees in March and a federal judge paused the move. The Supreme Court ...

Student-loan borrowers are at high risk if Trump dismantles the Department of Education, 11 organizations told Elizabeth Warren

Education organizations told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that Trump's plans to dismantle the Department of Education will harm ...
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Education Department in the middle of a growing tug-of-war between Trump, Democrats

The U.S. Department of Education has emerged as central in the struggle over control of the power of the purse in the ...
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What's Happening to the Department of Education? How It Can and ... - CNET

The Department of Education has been around in some form since the mid-19th century, with its current cabinet-level form created when a law passed by Congress and signed by President Jimmy Carter ...
Opinion

Trump sharpens the axe for the Education Department. Swing away, Mr. President. | Opinion

President Donald Trump's job isn't to employ as many bureaucrats as possible. It's to deliver effective and efficient services to taxpayers.
Opinion

Demoting the Education Department’s watchdog is a spark in a five-alarm fire

It will not only impact the oversight at the Department of Education; it will likely undermine the entire inspector general community.