Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

President Donald Trump was given the green light to gut the Department of Education after the Supreme Court ruled to allow the administration's mass firings that will significantly hobble the agency.

A group that has legally challenged the Department of Education in the past has filed a new complaint this week seeking a ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the ...

President Trump took dramatic action Thursday to inch closer to fulfilling a four-and-a-half-decade-old conservative dream of abolishing the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 under ...

President Donald Trump received another win on July 14 when a divided Supreme Court allowed his administration to fire hundreds of workers at the Department of Education and take other steps to ...

President Donald Trump will need Congressional approval to fully dismantle the department, but he has already made significant cuts to its budget and staff. The federal government provides ...

The Department of Education on Tuesday announced it is cutting its workforce by nearly 50% as the Trump administration proceeds with its plans to dismantle the agency. "Today's reduction in force ...

Fewer teachers. Incomplete data. Delays in addressing problems and getting financial aid information. Those are just some of the impacts Jason Cottrell, who worked as a data collector at the ...

Massive layoffs initiated this week at the Education Department could hamstring the federal government’s efforts to assist students with disabilities, former officials and education experts said, ...

The Education Department is withholding millions of dollars in grant funding appropriated by Congress for colleges that serve large populations of minority students.

Nearly 1,400 department workers are being fired as part of a broad reduction in force (RIF) that began on March 11. Days later, when President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the ...