A demonstrator is expressed by a megaphone during a defense rally of our schools to protest the executive order of American president Donald Trump to close the American department of education, outside his building in Washington, DC, United States, on March 21, 2025.
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Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a court to restore Employees of the US Ministry of Education The Administration had dismissed As part of its efforts to dismantle the agency.
Administration officials compete before the High Court that the US District Judge Myong Joun in Boston did not have the power to demand that the education service rehiring workers. More than 1,300 employees were affected by mass layoffs In March.
The reduction of personnel “performs the administration of the administration of rationalization of the ministry and the elimination of discretionary functions which, according to the administration, are better left to the states,” wrote General D. John Sauer in the file.
A federal court of appeal had denied Wednesday to raise the judge’s decision.
In its preliminary injunction of May 22, Joun stressed that the staff cuts led to the closure of seven of the 12 offices responsible for the application of civil rights, in particular by protecting students from discrimination based on race and invalidity.
Meanwhile, the whole team supervised the free demand for federal aid to students, or FAFSA, was also eliminated, said the judge. (About 17 million families apply each year for college assistance using the form, according to higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.)
The Department of Education cannot be eliminated without approval by the Congress.
Trump administration announced its reduction in force On March 11, it would have emptied the agency staff.
Two days later, 21 states – including Michigan, Nevada and New York – filed a complaint against the Trump administration for its staff cuts.
After the president Donald Trump signed a decree of March 20 aimed at dismantling the Education departmentMore games continued to save the department, including the American teachers’ federation.
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