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A judge halted President Trump's executive order to lay off 1,300 Department of Education employees, upholding a lawsuit against it as crucial federal duties were at stake.
Linda McMahon, the secretary of education, received a frosty welcome on Wednesday from Democrats who hammered her relentlessly over President Trump’s directive to dismantle the agency.
The Education Department said Thursday it is opening a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the admissions policy at an elite, selective high school.
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