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.

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

The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass layoffs.

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.

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.

A serial scammer will spend over two years in prison after she defrauded the U.S. Department of Education out of nearly $1 million in financial aid by enrolling fake students in

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 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 ...