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.

President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash staffing.

As part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government, at least 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers have had their positions terminated, CNN reported.

OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s AI company xAI have won contracts of up to $200 million each, aimed at scaling up adoption of advanced artificial intelligence capabilities in the U.

North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson, with attorneys general from 24 states, sued the federal government over the withholding of $6.8 billion in educational funds, risking $165 million and nearly 1,000 teaching jobs in NC.