WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he wanted the federal Education Department to be closed immediately. Trump had said last week he would like to close ...

The Education Department made department-wide cuts on Wednesday, including in its civil rights office, according to multiple sources familiar with the move, a day after President Trump said he'd ...

President Donald Trump called the Department of Education a "con job," saying he saw a report that the nation ranks 40th in the world in education but is No. 1 in cost per pupil. Trump spoke with ...

And Elon Musk, leader of the president’s Department of Government Efficiency, has a long track record of successful, and sometimes extreme, cost-cutting. When Musk took over Twitter, for example ...

The Department of Education oversees $1.6 trillion of student loans. The Trump administration is gearing up for major changes to the Department of Education, which, among its other functions ...

A plan being considered by the White House would direct the education secretary to dismantle the department as much as legally possible while asking Congress to abolish it completely. At her ...

Members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team have obtained “administrator” email accounts at the Department of Education, just as President Donald Trump announced that the ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education moved to terminate nearly $1 billion in research contracts on Monday, a decision critics said depleted the government of vital data sources on ...

Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department were the latest to be hit with layoffs as President Trump and a team led by the billionaire Elon Musk ramped up ...

She sketched out how key functions of the Education Department could be carved up to achieve Trump’s goal of dismantling the agency. She pledged to preserve core funding initiatives. WASHINGTON ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Education officials moved swiftly this week to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion measures and staff following President Donald Trump's executive order ...