On March 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin shutting down the federal Department of Education ...

The Department of Education’s latest workforce cuts, coupled with the executive order calling for the closure of the ...

The Department of Education took a key step to initiate a process that could result in major changes to federal student loan ...

The Department of Education oversees federal student loans held by nearly 43 million people, or one in six American adults.

Trump said student loans will be transferred to the Small Business Administration as part of his plan to eliminate the ...

The Education Department on Wednesday reopened applications for some of its most affordable student loan repayment plans but ...

President Donald Trump may move to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education. Massive layoffs were announced Tuesday ...

“This can only result in borrowers experiencing erratic and inconsistent management of their federal student loans,” Jessica Thompson, senior vice president of the Institute of College Access and ...

Is there any argument that the things that are happening now at the Department of Education around student loans could be beneficial long term? None that come to mind. The student-loan program was ...

As part of the federal government's plan to gut the Department of Education, the agency cut half of its workforce, which ...

The Education Department temporarily paused these applications after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled ...

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