KEY TAKEAWAYS The Department of Education closed online applications for Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans and loan consolidation applications after a federal court blocked student loan repayment plans.

President Trump believes that the bureaucracy in Washington should be abolished so that we can return education to the states, where it belongs,” Linda McMahon wrote.

Here’s where things currently stand with the Department of Education, and what student loan borrowers and prospective college students should know.

Linda McMahon, President Trump's nominee to become secretary of education, appeared before senators on Thursday.

Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding would blow a big hole in the budgets of red states.

As President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Education moves toward confirmation, her knowledge of special education and her plans for the program are raising concerns.

Republican states are embracing the idea of a future with no federal Department of Education, preparing plans for its Trump-promised demise and voicing confidence their own agencies can pick up

President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would call for the secretary to submit a proposal to diminish the Education Department.

McMahon, of Greenwich, awaits a full Senate confirmation vote to lead the U.S. Department of Education. Here's what to know about her.

WASHINGTON — If Linda McMahon is confirmed as education secretary, President Donald Trump has said he wants her to ''put herself out of a job.'' A plan being considered by the White House would ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of closing the Department of Education comes after a long Republican-led push to chip away at the agency's funding and influence.