The National Education Association president called President Trump's plan to eliminate the Department of Education 'unlawful' despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing the cuts.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track and go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Monday to move forward with major cuts to the Department of Education.

The Trump administration had appealed a decision that had directed it to stop gutting the U.S. Education Department and to reinstate many of the workers the government had laid off.

Schools in the commonwealth were sucker punched twice this month — first by the Trump administration and then by the U.S. Supreme Court. That news followed a gut punch from Lowell’s