AG Bonta today led a multistate coalition in filing an amended complaint expanding its ongoing legal challenge to the Trump Administration’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The amended complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, adds new allegations regarding the Trump Administration’s further transfer of critical functions outside of the Department to other agencies.
   
“The Trump Administration is continuing its illegal effort to dismantle the Department of Education until it finally shutters for good. This isn’t about reducing bureaucracy — if anything these changes are only making bureaucracy worse. My fellow attorneys general and I stepped in to block these illegal actions, and now we’re going back to court to block this latest maneuver. The right to an education is at the heart of the social contract this nation makes with its citizens. California will continue to defend access to transformative learning for our children from the illegal overreach of the Trump Administration.” – AG Bonta