ALBANY — New York is seeking to halt President Donald J. Trump’s plan to scale down and eliminate the federal Department of ...

President Donald Trump announced recently that roughly half of the Education Department's staff was being cut, amid his ...

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

The attorneys general of 20 Democratic states hit the Trump administration with a lawsuit over recent cuts to the Department ...

California and other Democratic states allege Trump's cuts amount to an illegal shutdown of the Education Department's ...

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

Long Island educators, parents and students worry that the staff cuts could impact special education and student loans.

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

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took ...

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...

The department is also terminating leases on buildings in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland.

Tuesday afternoon, the Department of Education announced plans to cut nearly half of its employees, more than 1,300 people.