A court declined to prevent DOGE from accessing sensitive student loan borrower data housed at the Department of Education. But the battle isn't over.

A plan being considered by the White House would direct the education secretary to dismantle the department as much as legally possible while asking Congress to abolish it completely. At her confirmation hearing Thursday,

Meanwhile, Trump is making his first big foray into foreign diplomacy with calls to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy on how to end the three-year war. He is also continuing to lay out his pitch for U.S. ownership of Gaza.

President Donald Trump has neither the authority nor sufficient congressional majorities to eliminate the Education Department, as he has long promised. So instead, he is exploring ways to dismantle it from the inside by slashing its workforce and doing away with some of its functions.

Amid the Trump administration's flurry of executive orders in the first month of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term came a rumor of the existence of a memo ordering that the word "felon" no longer be used on the White House grounds.

Efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle the Education Department are underway. Here's what it could mean for students.

Federal oversight by the U.S. Department of Education has often created bureaucratic obstacles rather than actually improving student outcomes.

Maine is accused of violating Title IX laws after refusal to comply with an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports.