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 Trump Administration can push through with its plans to dismantle the Department of Education after the Supreme Court allowed it to continue laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass layoffs.

Education organizations told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that Trump's plans to dismantle the Department of Education will harm student-loan borrowers.

Former Department of Education employees and education advocates told ABC News that they worry this ruling could harm the most vulnerable children in the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration insists it hasn’t wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America’s children even as it dismantles the Education Department. Yet its own data shows the agency has resolved far fewer civil rights cases than in past years despite families filing more complaints.

The Trump administration has created a partnership between Labor and Education departments to build an integrated federal education and workforce system as part of an effort to downsize the government.

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WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

(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.

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