Education Secretary Linda McMahon interrupted a press conference by House Democrats to give an impromptu statement after they ...

A group of House Democrats met with Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon Wednesday to discuss how her agency will ...

Democrats slammed Education Secretary Linda McMahon for dodging their questions about the end of her department in a ...

With the proposal to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, we should review the importance of the agency,” a State ...

Since its founding in 1979, the DOE has overseen federal education policy, administering funding to states and school ...

In his platform, Trump promised to close the department “and send it back to the states, where it belongs.” Trump has cast ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said all the critical functions of the Department of Education will remain, ahead of President Trump signing an executive order to dismantle the ...

Here is a look at some of the Education Department's key functions, and how Trump said he might approach them.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, ...

The order mandates redistributing the department's functions across multiple federal agencies by the end of the year, marking a major change in how the federal government approaches education.