Nearly half of the Education Department’s workforce is set to be off the job, including employees right in Boston. All employees working out of the department’s regional office in Boston will ...

The Massachusetts education board voted to narrow the use of “time-out” rooms in schools, taking steps to ensure the spaces ...

Much of the Education Department’s money for K-12 schools goes through large federal programs, such as Title I for low-income schools and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

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 ...

Then Trump signed an executive order in March aimed at eventually abolishing the Education Department, cut half of the agency’s 4,300 workers, and shut down the Boston civil rights office.

DOJ had asked for a swift ruling from the 1st Circuit US Court of Appeals so that it could promptly take the case up to the Supreme Court if it lost.

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.

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 ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate roughly 1,300 Education Department employees after Democrat-led states claimed that their removal violated congressional ...

Judge Myong J. Joun of the District of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump from dismantling the Department of Education. The DOJ will appeal.

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 ...