"It's going to reduce the number of teachers, it's going to reduce the ability for us to make evidence-based changes.”

Former Department of Education employees and education advocates told ABC News that they worry this ruling could harm the most vulnerable children in the country.

The Department of Education laid off roughly 1,400 employees in March and a federal judge paused the move. The Supreme Court now says it was permissible.

Education organizations told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that Trump's plans to dismantle the Department of Education will harm student-loan borrowers.

The Department of Education has been around in some form since the mid-19th century, with its current cabinet-level form created when a law passed by Congress and signed by President Jimmy Carter ...

We can’t stand by while the U.S. Department of Education, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and our public libraries are stripped of funds and ultimately dismantled ( “Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting,

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"Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the General Counsel (OGC) opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) after a review of the university's foreign reports revealed inaccurate and incomplete disclosures," the DOE said in a news release.