The US Education Department said it is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, according to senior agency officials, as ...

Department of Education staff will receive “reduction in force" notices Tuesday, and nearly half of the staff will be ...

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday sent letters to 60 colleges and universities it says are ...

The Department of Education announced that it was laying off half of its workforce on Tuesday, a move that Secretary of ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that President Trump intended to sign an executive order aimed at closing her ...

The terminations are part of the department's "final mission," it said in a press release, alluding to Trump's vow to eliminate the department.

The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Trump and his education ...

After the Trump administration announced significant staffing cuts at the Department of Education Tuesday ... "But what we did today was to take the first step, eliminating what I think is ...

McMahon additionally sent a letter to all staff on her first day ... who has tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the Department of Education — a momentous ...

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Trump addresses the mass layoffs at the Education Department, emphasizing state control over education, while concerns arise ...