Sen. Patty Murray

March 10, 2026

Education Department to release some grant money

July 24, 2025 The Associated Press

RALEIGH — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent […]

Trump orders plan to dismantle Education Department while keeping some core functions

March 21, 2025 Collin Brinkley and Chris Megerian

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. Trump […]