Moving federal student loans to another agency is the latest proposal in the ongoing effort to dismantle the Department of ...

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

Student loan borrowers were already facing a host of challenges. Now President Trump is moving to dismantle the agency that manages the loans.

The Education Department manages approximately $1.5 trillion in student loan debt for over 40 million borrowers. It also oversees the Pell Grant, which provides aid to students below a certain ...

The White House wants to end the federal education agency, but you should still fill out FAFSA now if you want financial aid ...

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 closure of the entire department would require an act of Congress, but Trump and his newly appointed secretary of education, Connecticut resident Linda McMahon, can shutter or shift pieces of the ...

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

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

President Donald Trump has begun sketching a roadmap for dismantling the Education Department, with other agencies taking ...