A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring back the workers, but they remain effectively on leave.

Politics Boston judge blocks Trump’s orders to dismantle the Education Department and fire employees U.S. District Judge Myong Joun granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump ...

State officials said that federal education grants that were expected to arrive July 1 are now instead under review “to make ...

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts next to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon as he shows the executive order to shut down the Department of Education, in the East Room at the White House ...

News. Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at Education Department U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from ...

Joun ordered the Education Department to reinstate federal workers who were terminated as part of the March 11 layoff announcement. That announcement led to the firing of about 1,300 people.

The order blocks the Trump administration from enforcing its March executive actions, which aimed to reduce staff at the Education Department, require the rehiring of laid-off staff, and mandate ...

Madi Biedermann, the Education Department’s deputy assistant secretary for communications, said the administration would immediately challenge the decision while taking aim at the judge.

Trump cannot proceed with gutting US Education Department, ... The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on June 4 rejected the Trump administration's request to put on hold an ...

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.