President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Nov. 5 election took over the White House, the U.S. Senate and as of late Wednesday, the ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments Hoot Gibson, a member of the Board of Trustees for Baker University, in Kansas, has been named ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee supports the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, citing state efficiency.

Washington state Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal will call on lawmakers to expand access to career and ...

U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, the Missouri Republican who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Sam Graves ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks the Brookings Institution's Jon Valant about President-elect Trump's campaign promise to close the Department of Education.

President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly mentioned "disbanding" and "de-powering" the Department of Education during his ...

The federal government furnishes a relatively tiny amount of K-12 funding—but the feds need relatively little money to exert ...

Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate, ...

Trump has threatened multiple times to take away funding from schools if they do not align with his views on subjects such as ...

overreaching department for far too long. No more indoctrination." It concluded, "No more wasteful spending. No more ...