The Senate Finance committee voted 7-4 to advance Senate Bill 836, which would require public schools to verify the legal ...

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming made the claim this month as support for the Trump administration targeting the agency ...

States and communities invest 90% of public education funds and shoulder most responsibility. The Department of Education ...

The University of Tennessee is monitoring the situation as it develops, including the announced changes for student loans.

President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Thursday aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. Here ...

Trump could soon act on his promise to dismantle the Department of Education. Here's what to know about the Department of ...

Todd Warner and other Trump supporters in Tennessee express their fears for public schools as the president moves to ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order expressing his desire to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Dismantling the agency requires Congressional action, but Trump has ...

The Trump administration plans to gut the Education Department office that measures student success. An education expert says this could hurt American competitiveness in the long run.

But the next steps are complicated, and the department's actual role in education - including at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville - isn't as simple as one might think. How has the ...

Teachers are concerned there will be larger class sizes, fewer after school programs and cuts to special education resources.