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Civil rights investigations, student loan borrowing and financial aid are among the areas that will be affected by a department with diminished capacity.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Education Department to proceed with mass layoffs. But not all the firings were reversed.

The National Education Association president called President Trump's plan to eliminate the Department of Education 'unlawful' despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing the cuts.

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to move forward with efforts to dismantle the Education Department. Here's what the agency does.

A coalition of more than 20 U.S. states has taken legal action against the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawfully freezing billions of dollars in federal education funding that supports after-school care,