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

A group of 21 attorneys general led by New York's Letitia James Thursday sued the Trump administration in an effort to halt ...

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 ...

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 New York City Public School system is almost 95% funded at the state and local level. Still, that 5% of federal funding ...

On Tuesday, Education Department officials said the agency’s workforce would be cut roughly in half, with over 1,300 workers ...

The lawsuit argues the cuts would harm students, especially those who are in low-income families or have disabilities.

It's truthfully hard to know which of those funding streams is at greatest risk because it's very unclear what is happening,” ...