The challenge from 21 attorneys general comes just days after the Education Department announced it would shrink its staff by ...

President Donald Trump was sued by a group of mostly Democratic-led states over his alleged plan to effectively dismantle the ...

The suit from 20 states and the District of Columbia comes two days after the federal agency fired more than 1,300 employees.

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more effectively. The attorneys general called the layoffs “reckless and illegal.” ...

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s layoffs across the Education Department, ...

A group of attorneys generals from mainly Democratic-led states said the cuts would decimate the agency.

A group of 21 attorneys general led by New York's Letitia James Thursday sued the Trump administration in an effort to halt ...

WASHINGTON — A group of 21 Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration Thursday over the U.S. Education Department’s efforts last week to cut more than 1,300 employees.

The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of ...

The lawsuit alleges the layoffs are so severe the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory ...

The attorneys general of 20 Democratic states hit the Trump administration with a lawsuit over recent cuts to the Department ...

A group of Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Education from mass layoffs.