At the top of another new year, we are looking ahead to some of the top trends in higher education for 2025. Over the past five years, higher education has transformed as students and employers have ...

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it at an indoor presidential inauguration parade event in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025. Trump's executive actions prompted legal ...

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The Education Department had a roughly $200 billion budget for 2024. About 71% of the budget went to grants and loans for students pursuing higher education. Another 25% of the department’s spending ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Our Nation’s bright future relies on empowered families, engaged communities, and excellent educational opportunities for every child. Unfortunately, the experiment of ...

President Donald Trump inherited a U.S. Department of Education with 4,133 employees, according to the administration's own numbers. Nearly 600 workers have since chosen to leave, by resigning or ...

After President Donald Trump's administration slashed half of the U.S. Department of Education's staff amid mass layoffs and buyouts, millions of students, parents, teachers, administrators and ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union ...

Donald Trump has moved swiftly to overhaul the government in his first month in office. Now, the Department of Education remains in flux. Reports indicate that Elon’s Musk’s “Department of Government ...

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office. By Michael C. Bender and Dana Goldstein Reporting from Washington The ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” that attempts to dismantle the Department of ...