Key student loan and aid programs may be eliminated or restructured if Trump follows through with cutting the Department of ...

The Department of Education announced it was laying off employees as part of an effort to halve the agency's staff.

The Department of Education distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and manages the federal student loan portfolio. Closing the department would mean redistributing each of those ...

Experts warn borrowers should expect long waits, especially those with questions or disputes over their student loans.

That description of the Education Department is "a red herring," said Mayotte. "If the Education Department was eliminated tomorrow, the loans would not go away, they would only be sent to a different ...

An hours-long outage Wednesday on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, underscored the ...

President Donald Trump may move to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education. Massive layoffs were announced Tuesday ...

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All agree that the cost of higher education ... I just don't think student loans are high on their priority list, I think it's K-12, civil rights and DEI," Mayotte said. "Despite everything ...

I just don't think student loans are high on their priority list, I think it's K-12, civil rights and DEI," Mayotte said. Sen. Mark Kelly addresses 1 of the key worries that damaged his VP ...

When I graduated from undergrad in 2019, I was jobless and staring at nearly $80,000 in student loan debt ... that I wasn't saying goodbye to fun for all of my 20s — quite the opposite.