The former Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner has been tapped to be the next U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education.President-elect

President Elect Donald Trump has said he wants to dismantle the department of education in his upcoming term, giving the power back to the states.“One other thi

Decades ago, Jimmy Carter engineered the creation of the modern Education Department. On the heels of his death, the agency's future is threatened.

Lancaster County public schools could see cuts to nearly $55 million in federal funding if President-elect Donald Trump succeeds in his promise to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

Erica Meltzer is National Editor at Chalkbeat, where she covers education policy and politics. Erica was a founding editor of the local news site Denverite. Before that, she covered everything from housing and energy policy to crime and courts for newspapers in three states. She served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay.

Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate the Department of Education gains support from several Republican states, with officials arguing that local control c

A conservative nonprofit, the American Accountability Foundation, released a "watch-list" of 10 top "left-wing" bureaucrats at the Department of Education.

Donald Trump picked Penny Schwinn, a former TEA official, to serve as the next United States Deputy Secretary of Education.

North Carolina Representative David Rouzer has introduced H.R. 369, a bill seeking to abolish the U.S. Department of Education as part of Donald Trump

Since launching in 2021, America First Policy Institute has been known colloquially around Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump's "Cabinet in waiting."