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Unofficial resistance group fighting to protect the U.S. Department of Education.
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Dan Gordon
13 days ago
Lots of discussion about whether shifting education programs from US Department of Education to other federal agencies is a good idea (narrator: it isn't). Our team and Sligo Law Group looked at whether it's even legal to do so. TL;DR: It likely isn't.
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DEEP DIVE: Beyond “The Maximum Extent Permitted By Law”
Beyond “The Maximum Extent Permitted By Law” Legal Analysis of the U.S. Department of Education’s Transfers of Programs to Other Federal Agencies December 4, 2025 President Trump issued an executiv...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yU4fC2M5w3lDgCpZjqSm9Rm7RKorrhLpYX_zaaFTbA8/edit?usp=sharing
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star
22 days ago
A coalition suing to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education expanded its lawsuit Tuesday to include objections to recent interagency agreements to shift the department’s responsibilities to other Cabinet-level agencies. From
@statesnewsroom.com
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Suit to block Education Department closure expanded amid agency transfers plans • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
A coalition suing to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education expanded its lawsuit to include objections to recent interagency agreements to shift the depar...
https://penncapital-star.com/2025/11/26/repub/suit-to-block-education-department-closure-expanded-amid-agency-transfers-plans/
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The Department of Education was created by Congress and can only be dismantled by Congress.
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Fun fact: The Phoenix Declaration was also the name of a statement issued by an LGBT-affirming clergy group in Arizona in 2003 that called on churches to fully welcome LGBTQ people and declared homosexuality neither a sin nor a choice and urged an end to discrimination. Probably different than this.
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OPB
about 1 month ago
The U.S. Department of Education has found that students who take part in the College Access Migrant Program are far more likely to stay in school. But the Trump administration questions the effectiveness of such programs and calls them "extremely costly."
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College program for migrant students loses federal funding
The College Access Migrant Program helped create pathways for students across the Northwest to enroll at higher education institutions.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/10/education-college-access-migrant-program-oregon-washington-trump-immigration-university/
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Frazz
about 1 month ago
Don’t get it twisted: the people working *in* the department of education are suffering under the Trump administration’s leadership. Those running the U.S. Department of Education right now are incompetent and do not care about our nation’s students AT ALL.
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Maybe it’s just us, but it’s really starting to seem like this administration does not care about the rule of law.
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Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says | CNN Politics
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment rights of some agency employees when it sent out-of-office messages on their behalf that blamed Democrats for...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/emails-blaming-democrats-shutdown-violate-first-amendment
about 1 month ago
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Hang in there, feds.
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Resources for Furloughed Federal Employees — Sligo Law Group, PLLC
https://www.sligolawgroup.com/furloughresources
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Public Citizen
about 2 months ago
A new Trump admin rule could make employees of non-profits that work on immigration, DEI, or trans issues ineligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Once again, Trump is specifically punishing employees at organizations that he ideologically opposes.
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PapaJ
about 2 months ago
Mornin' ☕
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We’ve been hearing the rumors since the day the layoffs were announced, but ED has now confirmed. Still far from a done deal though.
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about 2 months ago
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ICYMI: Declaration from Jacqueline Clay on the exact numbers of RIFd employees.
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.457131/gov.uscourts.cand.457131.62.6_1.pdf
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“There’s something opportunistic about what we’re watching right now,” says ED official from first Trump administration, astutely noting the obvious.
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2 months ago
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Court Blocks Shutdown Layoffs, But Experts Say Education Department Programs Still in Danger
www.the74million.org/article/cour...
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Court Blocks Shutdown Layoffs, But Experts Say Ed Dept. Programs Still in Danger
The judge said it’s ‘far from normal’ for an administration to fire staff ‘as a way to punish the opposing political party.’
https://www.the74million.org/article/court-blocks-shutdown-layoffs-but-experts-say-education-department-programs-still-in-danger/
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White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-education-department-federal-layoffs.html?smid=bs-share
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Gautham Rao
4 months ago
Check out this new law firm powered by former Department of Education folks ready to fight back against the administration to help schools, educational agencies, and nonprofit organizations! Introducing Sligo Law Group
www.sligolawgroup.com/launch-annou...
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Press Release: Former Department of Education Attorneys Launch Sligo Law Group — Sligo Law Group, PLLC
August 13, 2025: Former Department of Education attorneys launch Sligo Law Group, a boutique federal education law firm, to support elementary, secondary, adult, career and technical, and postsecondar...
https://www.sligolawgroup.com/launch-announcement
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Education Week
2 months ago
Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs: The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.
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Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs
The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/ed-dept-offices-will-be-virtually-wiped-out-in-latest-layoffs/2025/10?utm_source=bs&utm_medium=soc&utm_campaign=edit
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Today’s update: More folks are receiving RIF notices as the administration continues its rapid dismantling of the Department of Education.
2 months ago
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Disability Rights Watch (US)
2 months ago
Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.
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We’ve now heard that most of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at ED is being let go as well. The harm caused to students if these layoffs are allowed to proceed cannot be overstated. ED cannot carry out its statutorily required duties without these offices.
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Becky Pringle
2 months ago
When hundreds of Department of Education employees are suddenly terminated, students bear the brunt of the consequences. Special education oversight. Grants to high-need schools. Protection of civil rights. Gone. This administration is destroying our education system from the inside out.
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We are hearing that almost all of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) has been let go. This is devastating news for both the employees, who are being treated as nothing more than political pawns, and for K–12 education in this country—both deserve better.
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Jessica Blake
2 months ago
Here's the latest from
@insidehighered.com
on the second round of layoffs at the Department of Education:
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Trump Fires More Education Dept. Employees
The Trump administration threatened to lay off federal workers because of the government shutdown. An unspecified number of employees got pink slips Friday.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/10/10/trump-fires-more-education-dept-employees
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Reuters Legal
2 months ago
The U.S. Department of Education said on Friday it would lay employees off as workforce cut notices began to go out on the tenth day of the federal government shutdown.
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US Education Department to lay off employees, agency says
The U.S. Department of Education said on Friday it would lay employees off as workforce cut notices began to go out on the tenth day of the federal government shutdown.
https://reut.rs/48ljwRt
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Bloomberg Law
4 months ago
Three fired Education Department lawyers are the latest to launch a law firm to represent entities affected by President Trump’s wide-ranging changes to government policies.
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Education Lawyers Fired by Trump Start Firm in ‘Chaotic’ Stretch
Three fired Education Department lawyers are the latest to launch a law firm to represent entities affected by President Trump’s wide-ranging changes to government policies.
https://bit.ly/4ozrSug
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scul diva ❌👑
4 months ago
"When you fire the professionals, the statisticians, the scientists that can analyze the data, that allows you to make up whatever facts you want,” Ms. Smith said.
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Karly Kingsley
6 months ago
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
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Askme
6 months ago
FAFO - stupid Magats. Also, the area is known as 'Flash Flood Alley'. As Forrest Gump said, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'
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State by state analysis
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States Face Uncertainty as an Estimated $4.8 Billion in K–12 Funding Remains Unreleased: Here’s the Fiscal Impact by State
States face uncertainty as $4.8 billion in K–12 federal funding remains unreleased. If the U.S. Department of Education doesn’t distribute these funds by July 1, state educational agencies will need p...
https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/states-face-uncertainty-k-12-funding-remains-unreleased
6 months ago
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The executive branch is refusing to distribute funding that was appropriated by Congress to be distributed in accordance with formulas laid out in statute. This violates, as they say in the legal world, a fuckton of laws.
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Trump Tells States He's Holding Back $6.8 Billion for Schools
Schools nationwide won't see funding earmarked for English learners, migrant students, professional development, and more.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/trump-tells-states-hes-holding-back-6-8-billion-for-schools/2025/06
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What happened to all the employees and contracts in place to handle this work? Oh that's right...
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The US Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics | Brookings
Federal education data releases have slowed dramatically, with major gaps in the 2024 Digest and Condition of Education report.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-u-s-department-of-education-is-far-behind-on-producing-key-statistics/
6 months ago
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Yup.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
8 months ago
It’s not the guns it’s a mental health issue they said
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Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382582/trump-school-mental-health
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NY Times Pitchbot
8 months ago
School shootings aren’t a gun issue; they’re a mental health issue. Here’s why we’re cutting $1 billion in funding for student mental health. by Donald Trump and Elon Musk
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Charter schools are public schools. Allowing a public school to teach a particular religion as truth means the end of the separation between church and state.
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Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
The justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs. But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/supreme-court-charter-school.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
8 months ago
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jamelle
8 months ago
they are literal segregationists
apnews.com/article/scho...
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
https://apnews.com/article/school-segregation-order-civil-rights-justice-department-7fc5e2e4ef8e9ad4a283f563c042ae7c
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For all you law nerds, here's how to sign up to listen to Friday's hearing in the attorneys general lawsuit against the Department of Education:
forms.mad.uscourts.gov/seating-sign...
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Request for Courtroom Seating/Audio Access
https://forms.mad.uscourts.gov/seating-signup.html?id=1%3A25-cv-10601-MJJMJJJoun04%2F25%2F20252%3A00%20PM
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"Not only is there an absence of “reasoned analysis” from the defendants; there is an absence of any analysis whatsoever... It is hard to fathom a more straightforward display of arbitrary and capricious actions than the Defendants’ actions here."
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8 months ago
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National Education Association
8 months ago
Students and families can't afford to pay for billionaires' tax cuts.
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Thanks,
@altcdc.altgov.info
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covid.gov
website.
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8 months ago
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The best part of this "mistake" is how the administration is blaming Harvard for responding to the letter instead of calling to verify the authenticity of a letter signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, and sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official.
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html
8 months ago
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Chris Hayes
8 months ago
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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8 months ago
🚨 Still not getting the attention it deserves: Critical systems behind Medicare, Medicaid, and more—programs that serve over 150 million Americans—are at risk of collapse. Wired article explains how mass layoffs in HHS IT + cybersecurity leave our health infrastructure dangerously exposed. 🧵
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HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
https://www.wired.com/story/department-health-human-services-possible-collapse/
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Mueller, She Wrote
8 months ago
I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.
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8 months ago
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scul diva ❌👑
8 months ago
Teachers, unions & school districts need to educate their communities now about how to push back on these efforts.
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In case anyone was wondering what it looks like when a lawyer can't find any evidentiary support for their client's actions, I give you the administration's response to a lawsuit challenging the massive layoffs at the Dept of Education:
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.281941/gov.uscourts.mad.281941.95.0.pdf
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An incredible read (and especially satisfying coming from a Republican judge).
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https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25900477/25-1404-ruling.pdf
8 months ago
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Why waste time with concepts like “due process” and “fairness” when you can just bully people and institutions into compliance?
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Trump’s freeze on $2.2 billion to Harvard provided no proof of wrongdoing
The Trump administration skipped over requirements, including offering to hold a hearing, when applying financial penalties related to civil rights violations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/17/harvard-trump-grant-freeze-antisemitism/
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Education is power. If you want to control the people you attack public education.
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Trump Targets K-12
We explain why the president is taking on public schools, and how officials are responding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/briefing/trump-targets-k-12.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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