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What Exactly Did Justice Barrett Disagree With The Majority About In Trump v. JGG?

Justice Barrett tells us to read the opinion, but there is nothing to read.

Reason

Justice Jackson's Dissent in Department of Education v. California Treats The Federal Government Like Just Another "Party"

The dissenters no longer treat the federal government with solicitude as a coordinate branch of government.

Reason

NY public schools tell Trump administration they won't comply with DEI order

New York state school officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding

The Independent UK

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MAGA is the pushback to public education

Dr. Derek Black: "We as a society will not find our educational promised land anywhere but in our public schools"

Salon

Trump and Congress Have a Right and a Duty To Kill the Department of Education

The feds have no constitutional authorization to meddle in education.

Reason

‘We will work with Congress’: Linda McMahon promises cooperation in push to dismantle Education department

Trump will work with Congress and follow the law as he dismantles Department of Education, secretary insists

The Independent UK

Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department was inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s decades-long disapproval of the agency

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 20, 2025, that calls for closing the U.S. Department of Education.

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Musk Mocked for Misspelling 'Department of Education' in Meme Celebrating Trump's Executive Order: 'The Irony'

Tech billionaire Elon Musk celebrated President Trump's executive order dismantling the Department of Education by posting a meme with a glaring spelling error.

Latin Times

Small Business Administration will now oversee $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio

Nearly 45 million student loan borrowers with $1.7 trillion in debt are left wondering what will happen to their monthly payments.

Fortune

Pesky Judges

Courts stop DOGE from accessing Social Security Administration data and prevent Homeland Security from deporting Georgetown fellow Badar Khan Suri.

Reason

‘We’re Not Just Some Bureaucrats’: DOE Employees on How Their Work Helps Texas Students

Department of Education workers and union leaders in Texas say kids will pay the price for Trump’s decision to “break this system.”

Texas Observer

Why is Trump dismantling the Department of Education – and what’s next?

The process of gutting the department will require approval from Congress, which might be hard to secure.

Al Jazeera

Trump signs order to shut down US Department of Education

The department can’t be eliminated without congressional action

The Independent UK

Donald Trump signs executive order to ‘eliminate’ Department of Education

The executive order begins the process of dismantling the department, a process which requires congressional approval.

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International Business Times

Trump Signs Order To 'Eliminate' US Education Department

US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at "eliminating" the Department of Education, a decades-old goal of the American right, which wants individual states to run schools free from the federal government.

Fortune

‘We won’t be silent’ — Teachers vow legal challenges after Trump moves to slash Department of Education

The agency oversees a $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio and supervises 50 million primary and secondary students across the U.S.

The Independent UK

Trump created a mock classroom in the White House to announce he was dismantling the Department of Education

ANALYSIS : Analysis: In signing an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, Trump was assigning homework that will never get done, Richard Hall writes.

The Independent UK

Trump signs order to ‘eliminate’ Department of Education — even though he’d need Congress to do it

The White House has conceded that it cannot entirely eliminate the department without action from Congress

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Marie Claire

Elizabeth Warren: This Is What Eliminating the Department of Education Will Actually Look Like

With the Trump administration threatening to sign an executive order to shut down the agency as soon as today, the Senator sits down with 'Marie Claire' to explain how public schools, financial aid, and civil rights would be impacted.

Reason

Bad Education

Is Trump about to pull the plug on the Department of Education?

The Guardian - US

Revealed: Trump education cuts mean years of work – and millions of dollars – go to waste

Staffers at US Department of Education say severe cuts in the name of efficiency are having the opposite effect: ‘You can’t even quantify the loss’

The Conversation

Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come

The U.S. Department of Education cut its workforce by nearly 50% on March 11, 2025, when it laid off about 1,315 employees. The move follows several recent directives targeting the Cabinet-level agency.

The Guardian - US

Seth Meyers on Trump’s Tesla photo-op: ‘This is how oligarchy works’

Late-night hosts discuss Trump shilling Teslas with Elon Musk and his dismantling of the Department of Education

Reason

Is This the Beginning of the End for the Department of Education?

The department laid off over 1,300 employees this week.

The Conversation

Mass layoffs at Education Department signal Trump’s plan to gut the agency

The Trump administration on Tuesday slashed staff at the Department of Education – firing roughly 1,300 employees – as part of its long-planned effort to eliminate the agency entirely. The move leaves the department with 2,183 employees, down from more than 4,000 at the beginning of the year.

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