Federal Judge BLOCKS Trump Plan To Destroy Department Of Education
By: Desmond Price
A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to dismantle the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican president’s campaign promises.
In their lawsuit, the groups said the layoffs amounted to an illegal shutdown of the Education Department. They said it left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education, distribute financial aid and enforce civil rights laws.
In his order, Joun said the plaintiffs painted a “stark picture of the irreparable harm that will result from financial uncertainty and delay, impeded access to vital knowledge on which students and educators rely, and loss of essential services for America’s most vulnerable student populations.” Source - CNN
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Donald Trump has made it very clear that he intends to shut down the Department of Education, permanently. His Secretary of Education admitted as much on a Fox News interview a couple months ago.
Make no mistake, a shutdown of that department will lead to the privatization of the public school system. Public tax dollars will flow to private institutions, owned by the wealthy, who can make their own curriculums, and choose their own students.
It would be nightmare scenario in so many ways, it’s hard for me to even imagine it.
I am so thankful to see this judge step in and block this disaster for now, but I’m sure the Trump regime will try again in the future.
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