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.

Education organizations told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that Trump's plans to dismantle the Department of Education will harm student-loan borrowers.

The Supreme Court decision this week giving President Donald Trump the go-ahead to largely dismantle the Department of Education is just one development this summer in what has been a broad federal retreat from education.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Education Department to proceed with mass layoffs. But not all the firings were reversed.

Maryland is joining 20 states that are suing the Trump administration for withholding education funds that had already been authorized by the Department of Education and were meant for a long list

Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision paving the way for the Trump administration to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.