Current and former employees at the agency spoke with The Nation about the chaos as 1,300 people were laid off on Tuesday.

The suit from 20 states and the District of Columbia comes two days after the federal agency fired more than 1,300 employees.

As the U.S. Department of Education shrinks following massive layoffs at the agency, President Donald Trump and his allies ...

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

Despite the layoffs, the Department of Education said in a news release that it “will continue to deliver on all statutory ...

The Education Department’s civil rights office has been among the hardest hit by layoffs, with the Trump administration ...

At least 800 education department research employees and outside partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and ...

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s layoffs across the Education Department, ...

In the Department of Government Efficiency's latest efforts to cut federal costs, some 1,315 Education Department employees ...

Since the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has collected and analyzed data on education across the ...

Since President Trump took office, staffing at the Education Department has been cut in half, and he has been mulling an ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.