A federal judge in Massachusetts had blocked the Trump administration from laying off more than 1,300 employees at the ...

The Justice Department’s emergency appeal to the high court said U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston exceeded his ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs ...

Layoffs of that scale ... California receives billions in federal funding from the Education Department for K-12 and higher-education students and programs. That includes $16.3 billion annually ...

U.S. District Court Judge Myong Joun sided with the Democratic states, challenging the attempted layoffs at the Education Department. He argued that the Trump administration’s actions were not ...

Cutting the Department of Education has been of particular interest to Trump in his second term. Earlier this year, he moved ahead with mass layoffs at the agency, which is tasked with ...

McMahon has insisted the dismantling of the Education Department will follow the law ... having delays in their federal funding and the layoffs resulted in the “practical elimination” of ...