The Trump administration placed Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, on leave Monday, just weeks after the nation’s yearly report card showed mathematics and reading scores plummeting to two-decade lows.

U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of closing the Department of Education comes after a long Republican-led push to chip away at the agency's funding and influence.

In a measure of 37 developed countries, the U.S. scored above average in reading and science and below average, but not last, in math.

President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet level position, it aimed to collect educational data an

The Trump administration abruptly terminated dozens of contracts financed by the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted.

By: Shauneen Miranda For the Indiana Capital Chronicle The Indiana context From Indiana Capital Chronicle The federal government provided about 13.0%, or one in every eight dollars of public school funding,

More than a billion dollars of government contracts at the Department of Education has been cut, a move the Trump administration argues gets rid of “woke” wasteful spending as others sound the

The Cincinnati Public School district received more than $30 million in Title I funds in 2022, more than 99% of the 18,500 districts across the United States.

Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature have passed a series of laws aimed at reshaping public education in much the same way. Florida laid the groundwork for Trump’s education policies starting four years ago,

Almost $1 billion in cuts have been made to the Department of Education by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The fate of the department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which tracks the progress of the nation's students,