{"id":96147,"date":"2025-07-19T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96147"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:58:15","slug":"supreme-court-green-lights-education-department-layoffs-modan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/19\/supreme-court-green-lights-education-department-layoffs-modan\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court green-lights Education Department layoffs [Modan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/supreme-court-new-york-mcmahon-emergency-order-RIF-layoffs-education-department\/753003\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Supreme Court green-lights Education Department layoffs<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>&#8212; from k12dive.com by Naaz Modan<br \/>\n<em>The decision is a significant victory for the Trump administration as it seeks to close the department to the greatest extent possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The U.S. Supreme Court on\u00a0Monday\u00a0allowed\u00a0the Trump administration\u00a0to\u00a0proceed with laying off nearly half\u00a0the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s staff \u2014 a significant\u00a0victory\u00a0for the administration\u2019s mission to\u00a0dissolve\u00a0the department to the greatest extent possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The decision in\u00a0New York v. McMahon\u00a0green-lights\u00a0the department\u2019s reduction in force initiated in March\u00a0as the original question of the layoffs\u2019 legality works its way through the lower courts. The layoffs closed department offices and spurred concerns from public school advocates that the education system would descend into chaos with little federal oversight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court green-lights Education Department layoffs\u00a0&#8212; from k12dive.com by Naaz Modan The decision is a significant victory for the Trump administration as it seeks to close the department to the greatest extent possible. The U.S. Supreme Court on\u00a0Monday\u00a0allowed\u00a0the Trump administration\u00a0to\u00a0proceed with laying off nearly half\u00a0the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s staff \u2014 a significant\u00a0victory\u00a0for the administration\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,46,7,285,89,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-legislation-legislatures","category-teachers","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96148,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96147\/revisions\/96148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}