US Supreme Court clears way for Trump to dismantle Department of Education

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its controversial plan to gut the Department of Education, delivering a major victory to the former president's effort to shrink the federal government's role in public schooling. The Court lifted a lower court's block on mass layoffs and the transfer of key department functions — a move critics say could gut protections for students and disrupt critical funding streams for schools across the country.