The Education Department is shifting civil rights and special ed to other agencies, advancing a plan to scale back the department.

The Education Department is handing off two of its most important functions, giving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies. With the ...

The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Education Department, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies. The Department of ...

Eliminating the Department of Education has long been a right-wing goal, and the Trump administration has steadily been attempting to do so since taking office. Now, the administration has moved ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday accelerated its dismantling of the Education Department, delegating much of its work to protect the nation's at-risk students. The ...

The U.S. Department of Education has begun outsourcing responsibility for overseeing the nation’s sprawling special education system and enforcing civil rights law in schools to other federal agencies ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that special education and civil rights oversight would no longer be helmed by the Department of Education. Instead, the Department of Justice (DOJ) will ...

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