After a brief period of test-optional admissions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges are again requiring SAT or ACT scores from applicants. Students are feeling the pressure of achieving ...

What about student loans? Should college hopefuls still fill out the FAFSA? Cuts the Trump administration has made already to the Education Department have eliminated hundreds of staff members and ...

It runs the federal work-study program and administers Pell grants to make college more affordable for low-income students. The department also defends students' civil rights through its Office of ...

Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department. The department's main role is financial ...

Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department. The department's main role is financial, and ...

President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications. The Republican president has argued the federal office hasn’t improved ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday telling the Education Department to begin dismantling itself. The order has sparked questions what the move means for student loans.

The Department of Education does not play any role in determining curricula, requirements for enrollment or graduation, lesson plans or hiring at public schools, colleges or universities.

Trump said his administration wants to shut down the Department of Education “as quickly as possible,” adding “we want to return our students to the states,” though it would ultimately ...

Ben Curtis/AP Share WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take ...