Nita Lowey, the former 16-term congresswoman from New York, has died after a battle with breast cancer, her family says.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is sounding the alarm on the Trump administration's cuts ...

ALBANY — New York is seeking to halt President Donald J. Trump’s plan to scale down and eliminate the federal Department of ...

The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Trump and his education ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit ...

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more effectively. The attorneys general called the layoffs “reckless and illegal.” ...

Cutting Title I funds would reverse a federal commitment of decades to educating children who need extra help and support to ...

Economists Martín Guzmán and Joseph Stiglitz explain how state-level changes can assist the 3.3 billion people living in ...

It's truthfully hard to know which of those funding streams is at greatest risk because it's very unclear what is happening,” ...

The Empire State ranks among the bottom 20 states in this decline, despite having the most expensive public schools in the ...

The attorneys general of 20 Democratic states hit the Trump administration with a lawsuit over recent cuts to the Department ...