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(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.
A total of 10 Republican senators are urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision to withhold more than $6 billion in federal funds for education programs already appropriated by Congress.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now says it will push a court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case in an effort to put to rest for good a political crisis largely of its own making.
The Supreme Court decision this week giving President Donald Trump the go-ahead to largely dismantle the Department of Education is just one development this summer in what has been a broad federal retreat from education.
Donald Trump's Supreme Court conservatives have given him the green light to destroy the Department of Education while the legality of his doing so continues to be litigated. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan talks with Jen Psaki about the importance of Education Department funding to the most vulnerable populations in the United States,
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.