The federal government has ended two programs that provided food to schools and food banks by buying it from local farmers.

The Department of Education announced new investigations into more than 50 colleges for alleged racial discrimination, part ...

Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler joins WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss how these changes will impact education in Massachusetts.

Experts say Trump's mass firings and freezing of billions of dollars appropriated by Congress could have ripple effects on ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set an April execution date for a man who dropped his appeals and asked to be put to ...

Education advocates, recently fired employees, and supporters are expected to gather Friday morning at the U.S. Department of ...

Osgood was convicted of the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County. Prosecutors said Osgood cut her throat after he and his girlfriend sexually assaulted her.

Still, the state's superintendent of public schools said there would be a “much bigger impact” if Congress or the executive ...

More than a dozen schools, including Harvard, MIT, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, have frozen hiring.

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Federal Student Aid were especially impacted by the cuts announced on Tuesday.

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday asks a judge to halt the cuts at The Fair Housing Center and similar organizations in 33 ...

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown says the move to gut the department is illegal and will negatively impact ...