But that creativity and innovation has to come from the state level.” McMahon and the administration have already taken steps in recent weeks to gut the department by cutting its workforce ...

WASHINGTON — Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have ...

President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education ... attended by several Republican governors and state education commissioners. Preparing for the move ...

A State Department spokesperson said Thursday that Ukraine and Russia are “just a breath away from a full ceasefire” after three years of war. “We are just a breath away from a full ...

While the overwhelming majority of public school funding comes from the state and local level, the Department of Education sends some money to those institutions as well. Much of this comes from ...

President Donald Trump has ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin the work to dismantle the Department of Education. An executive order that was ceremoniously announced on Thursday ...

The order is only one step in dismantling the department, and firings at the agency have already prompted a lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general. The total elimination of the Education ...

she asked. Spellings said schools have always been run by local and state officials, and rejected the idea that the Education Department and the federal government have been holding them back.

If the department is shut down, this funding would either be eliminated or transferred to state governments. Critics argue that this could exacerbate inequalities, as wealthier states would be ...

President Donald Trump will likely sign an executive order Thursday to dismantle the Department of Education, according to multiple reports, after earlier moves by Trump to overhaul the department ...

President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on Thursday to start the process of dismantling the Department of Education ... Republican governors, state education officials and ...