The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

President Trump signals plans to weaken the Department of Education, throwing into question the fate of financial aid and funding for underserved students.

By Ana Swanson and Chris Buckley The new president has left virtually no corner of the nation’s capital untouched in a wide-ranging effort to tear down the federal government and refashion it to ...