After Congress established the Department of Education, the department's seven objectives in law are: Helping ensure access to equal educational opportunity for everyone. Support states, localities ...
President Trump has said he wants newly confirmed education chief Linda McMahon to "put herself out of a job".
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to "put herself out of a job" and close the Department of Education. McMahon was confirmed by the ...
Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the United States Department of Education, told a panel of senators that the agency could not be eliminated without congressional action.
Republican states are embracing the idea of a future with no federal Department of Education, preparing plans for its Trump-promised demise and voicing confidence their own agencies can pick up ...
The Department of Education announced it was cutting about 2,000 staff members, seemingly the first step in fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to dissolve the agency entirely.