The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Funds tied to federal educational laws would be redirected to states without federal oversight to ensure compliance.

When asked why he would put McMahon in charge of the education department only to get rid of it, Trump said, "I want her to ...

Cartoon satirizing the Alaska purchase of 1867. Secretary of State William Seward rubs cooling salve (Alaska) on the feverish (and embattled) president, Andrew Johnson. The cartoon was published ...

In 1867 President Andrew Johnson thought about trying to buy Greenland. So did President William Taft in 1910. During the Second World War the US occupied Greenland to prevent anyone else from ...

President Trump signals plans to weaken the Department of Education, throwing into question the fate of financial aid and funding for underserved students.

In the challenge the President has posed to the Congress over the power to dismiss officers, we are seeing a remarkable ...

New York City schools could lose $2 billion if the federal Department of Education is abolished, NYC Schools Chancellor Melissa Avilés-Ramos warned.

Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that President Donald Trump's plan to buy Greenland was "not a joke." ...

In 1867, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Act, giving Black men in the nation’s capital ...