The Department of Education’s elementary and secondary programs serve over 50 million students and close to 18,200 school districts nationwide. On Thursday, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha and 20 other attorneys general filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from laying off over 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees. The suit comes two days after the Department of Education released a statement saying that it had “initiated a reduction in force impacting nearly 50% of the Department’s workforce.” In a March 11 interview with Fox News, Secretary of...

New York Attorney General Letitia James and 20 of her peers from other blue states on March 13 announced a federal lawsuit seeking to protect the Department of Education from elimination. Her announcement was made two days after the Department of Education announced that half of its employees, about 2,000 workers, have so far voluntarily resigned or been laid off and that its offices in other states will be closed as part of ongoing cost-saving measures. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has previously stated her intent to eliminate the agency under...

A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Thursday to block the dismissal of nearly half of the Department of Education’s workforce by the Trump administration this week. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford joined 20 other Democratic Attorneys General to block the terminations, calling them “illegal” and “dangerously reckless.” The Department of Education on Tuesday announced nearly half of its 4,100-employee workforce would be fired, the latest move toward Donald Trump’s goal of dismantling the department entirely.