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The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to shift key functions from the Education Department to other corners of the federal government, moving quickly to implement changes just one day after the Supreme Court cleared the way for mass layoffs.
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Coalition of 21 States Sue Trump Administration Over Education Department LayoffsTwenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's dismissal of over 1,300 Education Department employees. The coalition claims these firings violate the Constitution and will harm millions of students nationwide.
Now, Trump and McMahon are free to execute the layoffs and break up the department’s work among other federal agencies. Trump had campaigned on closing the department, and McMahon has said the department has one “final mission” to turn over its power to the states.
The U.S. Department of Education’s massive firing of staff is an illegal overreach of the Trump administration’s authority because the move seeks to incapacitate the agency, argues a lawsuit ...
Trump slashed the department’s staff by half in March, spurring a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James and 20 other states’ attorneys general. A federal judge blocked the cuts after James said the massive cuts would strip necessary services, resources and funding from students and families.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday against Secretary Linda McMahon, the Department of Education, and President Donald Trump, claims that the president does not have authority to dismantle the ...
Another lawsuit, this time against Trump's Department of Ed: ACLU. ... The letter from U.S. Department of Education's acting assistant secretary for civil rights – Craig Trainor ...
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump would like to erase the Education Department, but he can’t do that with just a stroke of the pen. Trump has repeatedly argued the department should be ...
(The Center Square) – Lawmakers, school advocates and teachers’ unions are taking swift action after President Donald Trump’s executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education ...
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