The Trump administration has created a partnership between Labor and Education departments to build an integrated federal education and workforce system as part of an effort to downsize the government.

The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass layoffs.

The Trump Administration can push through with its plans to dismantle the Department of Education after the Supreme Court allowed it to continue laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon wants Congress to use small bills to dismantle the Department of Education, she tells The Daily Signal.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

An HKS expert in education policy outlines how schools, students, and states might be affected if the DOE is dismantled.

The email from the department indicated that the five programs were paused for review. Funding for the programs was approved and allocated by Congress in March, but the OMB has frozen the funds.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is investigating scholarships at UM and four other institutions, including Western Michigan, after complaints from a Rhode Island foundation alleged they illegally exclude "American-born students.