Nothing in any recent court rulings requires the department to halt debt forgiveness under IBR, and it's unclear why the federal government has paused it.

The Income-Based Repayment plan provides borrowers with a feasible option to repay their student loans, and here’s what you need to know.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states.

The Trump Administration can push through with its plans to dismantle the Department of Education after the Supreme Court allowed it to continue laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

The Trump administration has created a partnership between Labor and Education departments to build an integrated federal education and workforce system as part of an effort to downsize the government.

The Department of Education laid off roughly 1,400 employees in March and a federal judge paused the move. The Supreme Court now says it was permissible.

The Texas American Federation of Teachers, along with 13 other school districts, teachers’ unions, and non-profit organizations, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Trump administration

The Department of Education has been around in some form since the mid-19th century, with its current cabinet-level form created when a law passed by Congress and signed by President Jimmy Carter ...

President Donald Trump's job isn't to employ as many bureaucrats as possible. It's to deliver effective and efficient services to taxpayers.