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Washington, Education Department and Trump

Washington joins 20 states in lawsuit against Trump's attempt to dismantle Education Department

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown says the move to gut the department is illegal and will negatively impact millions of students.

The New York Times · 17h

Why Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a powerful point of unity between the factions of his party.

KGW · 8h

Oregon, Washington sue to stop Trump's cuts to Department of Education

Trump administration announced March 11 that it would fire about 50% of the federal Department of Education's staff.

Education Department guts its civil rights office

Associated Press · 1d

Live updates: Education Department guts its civil rights office

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff as President Donald Trump's administration lays off federal workers, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints across the nation.

CBS News on MSN · 1d

Department of Education staff told offices will be closed Wednesday

Washington — Staff at the Department of Education received a notice Tuesday instructing them to leave the building by 6 p.m. local time and informing them that all department offices in Washington, D.C., as well as regional offices, will be closed Wednesday, according to an email obtained by CBS News.

Yahoo · 14h

Gutting the Department of Education Is as Cruel as It Is Stupid

The DOE was created to ensure equal access to public education throughout the country. Trump wants to torch the effort

KUOW16h

Washington state joins lawsuit against Trump's mass Department of Education cuts

Washington state has joined a coalition of 20 other states in a lawsuit seeking to stop President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...

1don MSN

Trump to cut about 50% of Education Department staff as workers told to stay home

Roughly 2,100 Education Department staffers will start receiving layoff notices Tuesday, a Trump administration official said ...

1don MSN

Department of Education layoffs could be a preview of bigger things to come

The Education Department closed for the entirety of Wednesday, with officials citing security reasons, and will reopen Thursday with a greatly reduced headcount. Employees who will be let go will ...

1don MSN

U.S. Department of Education cutting more than half of its workforce

WASHINGTON — The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the ...

KOIN on MSN15h

Oregon, Washington attorneys general challenge ‘illegal cuts’ to Education Department

Two days after the Trump administration announced mass firings at the Department of Education, the attorneys general of ...

1don MSN

Mass layoffs ordered at Department of Education

Employees were told to leave the department's Washington, D.C., headquarters ahead of the layoffs and one-day building ...

1don MSN

Department of Education lays off nearly 50% of its workforce

The Department of Education initiated mass layoffs on Tuesday night, reducing its workforce by nearly 50%, sources told ABC News. The "reduction in force" notices began to go out at about 6 p.m.

8hon MSN

State Superintendent warns of potential for 'exceedingly painful' impact from federal education cuts

Washington state joined 20 other states in a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from drastically reducing the U.S. Department of Education's workforce.

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