After the Education Department announced mass firings, former Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, of Connecticut, told ...

About 4,000 people worked for the Department of Education previously; following the cuts, roughly 2,000 workers remain there. The DOE is run by the Secretary of Education in the p ...

The Department of Education distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and manages the federal student loan portfolio. Closing the department would mean redistributing each of those ...

Connecticut Democrats, in reaction to governor's abrupt hiring freeze, say the state budget surplus is robust enough to keep ...

The March layoffs are telegraphing an extreme move: a wholesale decimation of the Education Department, as Musk’s team did to the U.S. Agency for International Development. That action effectively ...

At least 800 education department research employees and outside partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and ...

Educators are thanking Governor Ned Lamont and lawmakers for additional funds for students with special needs.

The State Department of Education gets $394 million a year from Washington. That's 10% of its entire budget. That money pays for special education, career training, and teaching foreign students ...

Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers – one of the nation's largest teacher unions with 1.8 ...

A bill designed to strengthen CT's hate crimes statues is facing challenges from residents concerned it could be used to ...

Title I funding would initially move to block grants if the Education Department were dissolved. Such a move would likely cause a difficult transition with significant confusion at the state and ...