Trump's pick to oversee higher ed was a vice president for a company that paid $13 million to settle accusations it defrauded the student aid system.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced the release of $6.8 billion in federal funds while attending a National Governors Association education session.

The funding — which goes toward migrant education, English-language learning and other programs — was supposed to go out before July 1, but the administration informed schools just one day

The Trump administration said the US Department of Education will no longer freeze $5 billion in funding. Will Kansas get its $45 million back?

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that the United States has decided to exit the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court order directing the Trump administration to hire back scores of employees who had been laid off

The department said it was examining whether universities that provide financial help for children who arrived in the country as undocumented immigrants are discriminating against U.S. citizens.

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, has been advocating for the release of this particular funding. She says this will support programs that West Virginians use and rely on every day.