Department of Education to leave building after 40 years as part of effort to eliminate government agency

FIRST ON FOX - The Department of Education (ED) announced Thursday it will move to a smaller building to reduce the agency's footprint as part of its broader effort to dismantle itself.

Department staff will move out of the Lyndon B. Johnson headquarters building so the Department of Energy can eventually move in by August. 

The move is what the officials call "a prudent step to save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and further reduce the federal education bureaucracy."

The...