A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and ...
People exit the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., on September 30, 2025. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Federal worker advocates are hoping Congress’s bill ...
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which is supposed to protect students from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, age and disability status, isn’t what it once was. The ...
The U.S. Department of Education spent up to $38 million last year paying staffers from its office for civil rights to remain on administrative leave while the Trump administration’s efforts to lay ...