The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to shift key functions from the Education Department to other corners of the federal government, moving quickly to implement changes just one day after the Supreme Court cleared the way for mass layoffs.

Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's dismissal of over 1,300 Education Department employees. The coalition claims these firings violate the Constitution and will harm millions of students nationwide.

Now, Trump and McMahon are free to execute the layoffs and break up the department’s work among other federal agencies. Trump had campaigned on closing the department, and McMahon has said the department has one “final mission” to turn over its power to the states.

The United States Supreme Court has approved President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education with its nearly 1,400 layoffs. According to The Associated Press, the move came after a federal judge blocked the cuts from a New York lawsuit claiming such cuts would take necessary services and funding from students.

The U.S. Department of Education’s massive firing of staff is an illegal overreach of the Trump administration’s authority because the move seeks to incapacitate the agency, argues a lawsuit ...

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday against Secretary Linda McMahon, the Department of Education, and President Donald Trump, claims that the president does not have authority to dismantle the ...

Another lawsuit, this time against Trump's Department of Ed: ACLU. ... The letter from U.S. Department of Education's acting assistant secretary for civil rights – Craig Trainor ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump would like to erase the Education Department, but he can’t do that with just a stroke of the pen. Trump has repeatedly argued the department should be ...