Judge blocks Trump administration's mass layoffs at the Education Department

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4. Joun ordered the Education Department to reinstate federal workers who were terminated as part of the March 11 layoff an

Good news---now it has to go through other courts.


https://apnews.com/article/education-department-shut-down-layoffs-576eef90c30fdaeb660f7f66644bad10

Joun ordered the Education Department to reinstate federal workers who were terminated as part of the March 11 layoff announcement.

That announcement led to the firing of about 1,300 people. Some Education Department employees have left through buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees, which combined with the layoffs have reduced the staff to roughly half the 4,100 the department had when Trump took office.

“Today’s order means that the Trump administration’s disastrous mass firings of career civil servants are blocked while this wildly disruptive and unlawful agency action is litigated,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which represents plaintiffs in the Somerville case.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, called the decision “a first step to reverse this war on knowledge and the undermining of broad-based opportunity.”..............................