Congress has never fully funded special education at 40% per-pupil costs promised to states under IDEA. Funding has fluctuated over the years; in 2024, it was about 10.9%. Federal IDEA funding is ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Our Nation’s bright future relies on empowered families, engaged communities, and excellent educational opportunities for every child. Unfortunately, the experiment of ...

For families across America, "report card day" serves as an important moment to assess how a child is learning and progressing. Last week, the Nation’s Report Card – the only nationwide measure of how ...

WASHINGTON — Proposed mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education have raised alarm among disability advocates and Democratic lawmakers over the potential impact on millions of students with ...

Nearly two dozen Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration Thursday, seeking to halt an effort to lay off half of the Department of Education's workforce. The suit comes two days ...

Many of America’s global competitors — and adversaries — are no doubt cheering President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. They know that countries who out-educate the ...

Trump is preparing an executive order to abolish the Department of Education—a move that will undoubtedly hurt teachers, students, and parents in red states the most. “The Dept of Education provides ...

As the US government shutdown stretches into its third week, the Department of Education has largely gone silent, leaving schools without grants, guidance, or civil rights oversight. Education ...

The recent decision to slash the U.S. Department of Education’s workforce nearly in half will leave it unable to carry out its responsibilities and statutory requirements under the law. The recent ...

NEW ORLEANS — In your Breakdown: the history and role of the United States Department of Education. You can partially thank the space race for the modern origins of this department. The 1957 launch of ...

The announcement that the Department of Education (DOE) will lay off another 1,300 employees, reducing the staff to half its previous size of around 4,100, is more than a restructuring—it's a direct ...

America has done this before — creating, then decapitating a federal department of education. It was right after the Civil War, it wasn’t pretty, and the toxic debate surrounding it sounds familiar ...