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Department of Education Rocked by Layoffs

The Washington Post on MSN · 10h

How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights

The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.

NBC News on MSN · 15h

What the Education Department layoffs could mean for students with disabilities

The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon.

Austin American-Statesman · 21h

America's post-Department of Education landscape: What would it look like?

Amid layoffs and a plan by Trump to close the U.S. Department of Education, a new dawn for students is coming. Will it be bright or bleak?

Trump cuts Education Department in half

The New York Times · 12h

Democratic Attorneys General Sue Over Gutting of Education Department

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more effectively. The attorneys general called the layoffs “reckless and illegal.”

Albany Times Union on MSN · 7h

NY sues to halt Trump's effort to abolish the Department of Education

ALBANY — New York is seeking to halt President Donald J. Trump’s plan to scale down and eliminate the federal Department of Education. The state joined a lawsuit filed Thursday with 19 other attorneys general against the Trump administration, arguing that the authority to dismantle the department is held by Congress, not the White House.

Department of Education cuts half its workforce

The Department of Education cut half its workforce amid President Trump’s effort to abolish the agency. Trump touted the cuts, saying they shift responsibilities away from the federal bureaucracy and back to the states.

19hon MSN

Education Department cuts agency that compiles 'Nation's Report Card' and measures student performance

Since the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has collected and analyzed data on education across the ...

The Economist16h

The education department is halved overnight

The Department of Education was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter. Mr Trump says abolishing it will send education back to the ...

21h

Democratic-led states sue to block Trump administration layoffs at the Education Department

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s layoffs across the Education Department, ...

14hon MSN

States sue to block dismantling of Education Department

The lawsuit asks a judge to immediately pause the Trump administration's mass firings and declare that the dismantling of the ...

18h

Democratic-Led States Sue to Halt Trump From Dismantling US Education Department

BOSTON (Reuters) - A group of Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Republican U.S.

15hon MSN

Colorado and other Democratic-led states sue to block Trump’s layoffs at Education Department

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, in a statement announcing his participation in the lawsuit, said the Education ...

14h

How chaos at the Education Department affects Illinois schools

Trump is moving to cut the staff by half and dismantle the department. He’s also going after DEI in higher education and ...

15hon MSN

Pritzker discusses U.S. Department of Education cuts at Illinois Education Association meeting

The Trump administration has made it clear their goal is to dismantle the Department of Education entirely, and that is ...

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