The Latest Breaking News from the Education Department

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

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing the Education secretary to take steps to dissolve the department.

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

An hours-long outage on StudentAid

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.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Tuesday that large-scale staffing cuts at her department are a step toward ending its operations.

Over a thousand people will be laid off from the 4,000-person agency

The Education Department plans to lay off over 1,300 of its more than 4,000 employees as part of a reorganization that’s seen as a prelude to President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the agency

A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage