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.

Twenty states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging new Trump administration rules that bar undocumented immigrants from a host of federal programs, including Head Start and career and technical education offerings.

Attorney General Phil Weiser is wasting no time fulfilling his pledge to block President Trump's policy agenda with more than two dozen lawsuits. Why it matters: Weiser, a Democratic candidate for governor,

A coalition of 21 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration's restrictions on social services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start,

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha co-led a lawsuit against the Trump administration on July 21 over a new policy meant to bar undocumented immigrants from accessing “critical” public safety net programs.

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

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 ...