The Department of Education laid off roughly 1,400 employees in March and a federal judge paused the move. The Supreme Court now says it was permissible.

(The Center Square) - The U.S. Department of Education has taken further steps to dismantle itself since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of broad layoffs. The department announced new appointees, who will support the Trump administration’s mission of returning education to the states.

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.

The Department of Education has been around in some form since the mid-19th century, with its current cabinet-level form created when a law passed by Congress and signed by President Jimmy Carter ...

We can’t stand by while the U.S. Department of Education, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and our public libraries are stripped of funds and ultimately dismantled ( “Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting,

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"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.