New York AttorneyGeneral Letitia James won a court order stopping the Trumpadministration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education (ED). OnMarch 13, Attorney General James led a coalition of 20 other attorneysgeneral in suing the administration after it announced plans to eliminate50 percent of ED’s workforce. Following a March 20 executive order directingthe closure of ED and President Trump’s March 21 announcement that, in additionto implementing layoffs, the Department must “immediately” transfer studentloan management and special education services outside of the Department, AttorneyGeneral James and the coalition sought a preliminary injunction toimmediately stop the mass layoffs and transfer of services. The U.S. DistrictCourt for the District of Massachusetts granted the preliminary injunction,halting the administration’s policies that would dismantle ED and ordering allemployees who were fired as part of the layoffs to be reinstated. “Thisadministration’s illegal cuts to the Department of Education are an attack onevery student’s access to a quality education. Today we successfully put a stopto this outrageous attempt to leave our students behind and deprive our schoolsand teachers of the resources they need. As a proud graduate of New York publicschools, I will continue to protect our schools and the critical services theyprovide to our communities.” – AG James