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A total of 10 Republican senators are urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision to withhold more than $6 billion in federal funds for education programs already appropriated by Congress.
"With this GREAT Supreme Court Decision, our Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, may begin this very important process," Trump wrote.
The Supreme Court decision this week giving President Donald Trump the go-ahead to largely dismantle the Department of Education is just one development this summer in what has been a broad federal retreat from education.
The Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to gut the Department of Education through mass firings. Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Angélica Infante-Green, whose state is one of 24 suing the Trump administration over $6.
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Face2FaceAfrica on MSNOver 20 states sue Trump administration over frozen education funds, threatening summer and after-school programs for millionsA coalition of more than 20 U.S. states has taken legal action against the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawfully freezing billions of dollars in federal education funding that supports after-school care,