The U.S. Department of Education is dismissing nearly half of the agency’s workers as President Donald Trump continues to ...

Roughly 1,300 Education Department staffers received layoff notices Tuesday, a Trump administration official said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department plans to lay off over 1,300 of its more than 4,000 employees as part of a ...

The Department of Education said that these terminations will not impact core agency functions like the administration of ...

The staff reductions are the latest effort by the Trump administration to decrease the federal government’s role in education ...

Staff at the Department of Education have been told to leave the agency’s headquarters by 6 p.m. Tuesday and that all ...

All Department of Education offices will be closed Tuesday evening and Wednesday for unspecified “security reasons,” ...

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office -- a symbolic measuring stick for a new president -- are halfway through.

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.

Since his first term in the White House, President Donald Trump has set his sights on shuttering the Department of Education.