Remember the missing federal funding for school districts? It’s still mostly absent, and that’s creating major budget ...

WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump signed a megabill with his spending and policy priorities into law on July 4, he distanced himself from another one of his goals: dismantling the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Education should be shuttered, and essential functions should be woven into other existing government departments.

Education took up a small portion of the two-hour debate, with a question on the topic coming in the last half-hour of the event. Candidates’ responses were dominated by calls to eliminate the U ...

The push continues to have Illinois opt in to the federal school choice scholarship tax credit program. The program giving a ...

How would Mesa County Valley School District 51 be impacted if it lost access to U.S. Department of Education funding? The county’s U.S. House representative, Lauren Boebert (R-Silt), last ...

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a powerful point of unity between the factions of his party. By Michael C ...

The Trump administration's decision to downsize the Department of Education could lead to the dismissal of nearly 1,400 employees, sparking a nationwide debate on its consequences for public education ...

Trump’s proposals sometimes contradict one another. He wants to close the Education Department and send education “back to the states,” but he also wants Washington to flyspeck what is ...

An HKS expert in education policy outlines how schools, students, and states might be affected if the DOE is dismantled.

While differing views on education are expected, it is essential that such discussions, reflect a fair representation of policy intentions.