The administration insisted that the proposed, wide-ranging reductions in force target “inefficiency” and are not an attempt to kneecap the agency.

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let him resume dismantling the Department of Education, seeking to lift a lower court order that requires the reinstatement of as many as

The Justice Department’s emergency appeal to the high court said the Boston judge exceeded his authority when he issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs.