The temporary outage of the FAFSA website sparks fears that Donald Trump has followed through on threats to dismantle the Department of Education.

The Trump administration appears to be moving forward with plans to shutter — or at a minimum, shrink — the Education Department. Fully closing down the 45-year-old department, an idea that President Donald Trump supported during his campaign,

A commuter walks past the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Eduction, which were ordered closed for the day for what officials described as security reasons amid large-scale layoffs, Wednesday, March 12,

A list of laid-off staff obtained and verified by AP shows more than 300 people cut from Federal Student Aid — two dozen of them from Federal Student Aid’s technology division. That included the entir