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The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Education Department to proceed with mass layoffs. But not all the firings were reversed.
Education Department, with mass layoffs, cuts nearly half its staff. The staff reductions are the latest effort by the Trump administration to decrease the federal government’s role in education.
The decision paves the way for President Trump to continue dismantling the agency, including moving career and technical education to the Labor Department.
If California's legal challenge can't stop the Trump administration from withholding funds, the Education Department said over 100 employees could be affected.
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.