During the first year of the Trump administration, educators across the country faced a sweeping wave of federal grant cuts, ...

The Trump administration last May proposed to shrink federal K-12 investments by roughly $7 billion and eliminate or ...

Proponents of career and technical education programs and Democratic lawmakers are wringing their hands over the Department of Education’s plans to offload the funding and administration of CTE ...

The Department of Education on Tuesday announced plans to further dismantle itself and move certain responsibilities to other parts of the federal government, moves that align with President Trump’s ...

The U.S. Department of Education plans to end discretionary grant programs for a slew of minority-serving institutions, officials announced Wednesday—after Congress had already appropriated hundreds ...

On Monday, the Trump administration notified states that it was withholding over $6 billion in previously approved federal education grants to schools. The announcement came a day before the July 1 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. “We just expanded the definition of college,” writes Kathleen ...

The Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10. Reporter The Department of Education is shifting a number of its responsibilities to other federal agencies—a move that ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. President Donald Trump’s “skinny budget” ...

The Education Department is raising internal concerns about its ability to offload its work to other agencies, documents prepared as part of the transfer process show, demonstrating potential ...