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

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who ...

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 ...

Education Department spokesperson Madi Biedermann ... The reduction in force—which combined layoffs, the firing of probationary employees, and multiple buyout offers—came about a week before ...