The long-awaited directive comes as the agency is preparing to lay off likely hundreds of employees and just days after ...

A draft of an executive order reportedly instructs newly confirmed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to take all available steps “permitted by law” to close the sprawling department, which has ...

Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the Education ...

President Trump is expected to direct his secretary of education to dissolve the Department of Education by executive order this week, sources said.

President Donald Trump is taking direct aim at federal overreach with his bold move to dismantle the Department of Education. Sources indicate that Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to dismantle the Department of Education, prompting concerns for ...

President Donald Trump could take the first steps this week to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, sources tell CNN.

An actual government department can only be eliminated through an act of Congress, but that doesn’t mean Trump and Musk can’t ...

Here is a look at some of the Education Department's key functions, and how Trump has said he might approach them.