At her confirmation hearing last week, Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, walked a thin line. On the one hand, she needed to assure Congress and the American people that she was fit for a cabinet-level position.

The Department of Education gave schools and universities two weeks to end diversity initiatives or risk losing federal funding.

In an email to U.S. Department of Education Federal Student Aid employees on Friday obtained by The Associated Press, agency officials noted that some regional offices in Boston,

Since Donald Trump’s victory, many have turned their attention toward his potential impact on higher education institutions, including Swarthmore. While

President Donald Trump hasn't been shy about his desire to close the Department of Education, calling it "a big con job" as his administration began gutting it this month. But does the president have the power to shut down the Department of Education?

President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

President Donald Trump described the $268 billion Department of Education as “a big con job” and “I’d like it to be closed immediately.”

Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency,

President Donald Trump has reportedly been preparing an executive order to abolish the Department of Education, but is it really that simple? As The Center Square previously reported, many of Trump's executive orders are not enough,

Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding would blow a big hole in the budgets of red states.

As President Donald Trump has threatened to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education, the potential ramifications have left education officials in Southern California concerned about funding. Trump,

Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive now nominated for education secretary, faced questions from senators about how she plans to lead an agency that President Donald Trump intends to dismantle.