The Donald Trump Administration asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to allow him to continue the dismantling of the Ministry of Education, which would leave school policy almost entirely in the hands of states and local councils in the United States.
The Ministry of Justice asked the court to stop the judgment of the US district judge in the US on Boston, who decided on May 22, which ordered that the administration would restore employees terminated in bulk layoffs and end further steps to close the department.
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The department created by the US law approved in 1979 is supervised by about 100,000 public and 34,000 private schools in the United States, although more than 85% of public school financing come from the state and local administration.
It provides federal grants for the necessary schools and programs, including money for paying children with special needs, financing artistic programs and replacing outdated infrastructure. It also oversees $ 1.6 trillion on student loans held by tens of millions of Americans who cannot afford to pay for college directly.
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Trump’s step towards dismantling the department is part of the Republican President’s campaign for reducing and transforming the federal government. The closure of the Long Department was the goal of many US conservatives.
The General Prosecutors of the 20 States and the District of Columbia, as well as the school districts and the trade unions, sued to block Trump’s efforts to make the Ministry. States have argued that massive cuts in employment will not be able to perform basic functions permitted by statute, even in the civil rights arena, and effectively by the congestion of the congress contrary to the US Constitution.
Trump 20 March signed an executive order to effectively close the department, which promised conservatives to the long -term promise of the campaign to almost completely move the educational policy to the countries and local councils. At the ceremony of the White House surrounded by children and educators Trump, he marked the first step “to remove” the ward.
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Minister of Education Linda McMahon announced the plans of March 11 to carry out a mass termination of employees. These layoffs would leave the department with 2,183 workers, out of 4 133, when Trump joined the office in January. The department stated that in a press release, these endings were part of his “final mission”.
Trump 21st March announced plans to transfer the student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration and its special education, nutrition and related services to the US Department of Health and Human Services, which also face deep cuts.
In his decision, Joun ordered the administration to restore the released workers and stop the implementation of the Trump Directive to transfer student loans and special needs programs to other federal agencies.
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The judge rejected the argument that the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice submitted that the mass termination was focused on streamlining the ministry in the fulfillment of their mission. In fact, Joun decided that cuts at work were an effort to close the department without the consent of the congress.
“This court cannot be asked to cover his eyes, while the department’s employees are constantly released and the units are passed until the department becomes his shell,” the judge wrote.
The White House spokesman Harrison Fields called the judge “misleading”.
The Court of Appeal for the District Court of June 1 with its registered office in Boston rejected the request of Trump’s administration to suspend the court order issued by Joun.
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