President Donald Trump was sued by a group of mostly Democratic-led states over his alleged plan to effectively dismantle the US Education Department by slashing its workforce in half.

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

The states allege the cuts amount to an illegal shutdown of the Education Department's crucial, congressionally-mandated work ...

Shuttering the agency is unlikely as it would require congressional approval and some Democratic votes to break the Senate ...

The Thursday lawsuit said laying off nearly 2,000 people at the department will hurt schools and universities across the ...

Nearly half of all US Education Department employees have been laid off in the "first step" of Trump's dismantling of the ...

Get the latest updates on Trump's plan to dismantle the Education Department, and what it means for federal oversight and ...

The plan to fire about 1,378 employees will undermine the department’s ability to perform work mandated by federal law, the ...

The Trump administration cut about half the agency’s work force, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more ...

The lawsuit, which was filed in US District Court in Boston, argued Trump does not have the authority to shutter the agency, ...

Connecticut's William Tong is one of 21 attorneys general suing the Trump administration over its efforts to hollow out the U ...