President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

Since 1980, the Republican Party platform has supported shutting down the agency, calling it an example of federal overreach into state and local affairs. "I want to just do it," Trump said ...

The Republican Party platform that year “encourages the elimination of the federal Department of Education.” The GOP instead wanted education policy based on “the primacy of parental rights ...

Commissioners largely reject a libertarian-leaning, laissez-faire approach to regulation once embraced by most of the ...

The Democrat and Republican parties of Michigan have elected new party leadership, turning their sights to the 2026 midterm ...

Both the 2024 Republican Party platform and Project 2025, which labeled it a “one-stop shop for the woke education cartel,” also demand the department’s closure. Bills have been filed in ...