Desperation crept into Sylvia’s voice as she rattled off all the ways her life would become more difficult if a free learning program that her son attends during the summer shuts its doors.

Despite the lack of staffing, the Education Department's workload just grew. After President Trump signed his massive tax and spending bill into law, the agency was tasked with implementing two new loan repayment programs, as well as a complex system for holding colleges accountable.

Education organizations told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that Trump's plans to dismantle the Department of Education will harm student-loan borrowers.

"Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the General Counsel (OGC) opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) after a review of the university's foreign reports revealed inaccurate and incomplete disclosures," the DOE said in a news release.

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

Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision paving the way for the Trump administration to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education.

The states lost out on billions in funding for after-school and summer programs, teacher training and other initiatives.