Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dramatically ...

The hitch is that presidents can't single-handedly abolish departments that lawmakers ... Department of Education," Trump told reporters Wednesday at the White House. "We're going to move ...

The long-awaited directive comes as the agency is preparing to lay off likely hundreds of employees and just days after ...

Lawmakers and the Chicago Teachers Union are amongst those weighing in on the mass layoffs at the Department of Education, with hundreds of jobs slashed in the last 24 hours.

Lawmakers and ... Calls to dismantle the department are rooted in GOP concerns over federal intrusion into classrooms and a liberal stranglehold on the higher education system.

President set to order Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling federal agency and hand responsibility for ...