Despite the lack of staffing, the Education Department's workload just grew. After President Trump signed his massive tax and spending bill into law, the agency was tasked with implementing two new loan repayment programs, as well as a complex system for holding colleges accountable.

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to shift key functions from the Education Department to other corners of the federal government, moving quickly to implement changes just one day after the Supreme Court cleared the way for mass layoffs.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration for severely reducing the staff and cutting contracts within the Institute of Education Sciences. ... They say the Education Department “illegally” ended the grants, which totaled $600 million. The lawsuit, filed Monday, March 3, ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s massive firing of staff is an illegal overreach of the Trump administration’s authority because the move seeks to incapacitate the agency, argues a lawsuit ...

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue unwinding the Education Department, allowing it to move ahead with mass layoffs and a plan to outsource the

(The Center Square) – Lawmakers, school advocates and teachers’ unions are taking swift action after President Donald Trump’s executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump would like to erase the Education Department, but he can’t do that with just a stroke of the pen. Trump has repeatedly argued the department should be ...