California is suing the US Department of Education for Adjuctions

California and 19 other states plus Washington DC have backed off today against the Trump Administration of the Ministry of Education, saying that the impact would be catastrophic for millions of K-12 and high-income students who are at low income or special education.

In a trialCalifornia General Prosecutor Rob Bont Bont and other democratic lawyers said President Donald Trump had no power to dismantle the department created by Congress in 1979. They ask a judge to request the federal government to return 1300 workers who were dismissed this week.

“What is so disturbing here is that the reduction of power is so heavy and so extreme that it does not rely on the department of performing legal functions,” Bont said during a press conference this morning. “Only Congress can make such drastic changes. Not the agency. Not the president. “

Thehe claim that the Trump administration violates the US Constitution and does not comply with legal procedures.

Earlier during the week, according to the Trump Directive, Department reduce your staff To about half, the dismissal of about 1300 and the acceptance of purchase by nearly 600 employees, following Trump’s promise to extract federal educational programs. Republicans have long said they want Get rid of the Ministry of Education entirely And to transfer his responsibilities to other federal departments as a way to reduce bureaucracy and save money.

The abbreviations are one of several Trump moves to the conversion of schoolsS In recent weeks, he has broken up to schools that defend transgender students and Encouraging initiatives for diversityS He also removed the federal guidelines that keep immigration agents Outside of school campuses.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated that education cuts will make the department more efficient And it would not affect funding for special education, student loans or high poverty schools. But she also said that “all units in the department are affected by the reduction, with some units require a significant reorganization to serve better students, parents, teachers and taxpayers.”

Lack of transparency

So far, the cuts have seemed focused on data collection and research, although it is not clear how wide the other divisions are affected. In addition to special education and funding for high poverty and student loans schools, the Ministry imposes civil rights laws in campuses, runs early childhood and bilingual education programs and provides grants to support homeless students and support career and technical education, among other initiatives.

The lack of transparency in the abbreviations is “anxious,” said UC Berkeley Education Professor Bruce Fuller.

“We do not know if the discharged programs for children with disabilities, help with low -income schools, or college debt reduction,” Fuller said. “McMahon claims they don’t cut these programs. But is anyone on the steering wheel guarantees that the funds are flowing to the countries? “

Even if the cuts are limited to research and data collection, the impact is detrimental, said Joe Bishop, who heads the UCLA school transformation center. Researchers are studying educational initiatives to see what works, what not, which students need additional help and how effective schools are as a whole.

“The abbreviations … are a direct threat to the intellectual infrastructure created by Congress to ensure that there are systems for studying the health of training and the school system of students in the United States,” Bishop said. “These” efficiency “creates new costs that will burden the lives of students and families from generations.”

Last year, California schools received $ 10.7 billion from the federal government, about 9% of its total K-12 budget. He paid for things like teaching, after school, eating and services for students enrolled in special education.

Colleagues have also been affected, the costume says

Colleagues and their students will also be affected by the abbreviations of the department, the argument.

More than 800,000 college students in California received federal grants for Pell in 2021-22which cost up to $ 7,400 a year and are crucial to obtaining a degree of accessible to students. Student students received over $ 3.5 billion in dollars for grants in 2021-22. College federal loans are also often the only way a student can pay for the cost of getting a degree. Hundreds of thousands of Californians also receive them.

“The removal of the department will reach the opposite of the requested goals of the administration and instead will lead to expensive inefficiency and lack of accountability,” said Jesse Ryan, president of the campaign based in California for intercession and a college research group.

The claim listed numerous higher education programs created by Congress, which the Ministry of Education administers. With the massive abbreviations of staff, the claim emphasizes that financial assistance may not arrive in time for the students and campuses who are present, which would be an example of “functional elimination of financial assistance,” the costume said.

The agency monitors $ 120 billion a year in student loans, grants and low interest rates for 13 million students.

The claim claims that even if the money for these programs remains in the books, the “cannot work” programs without staff of the Ministry of Education. “Students at state universities do not know whether their federal packets for student aid will be timely and provided before the start of the semester in the fall 2025,” the costume said.

General Attorneys have also presented examples of how the flow of federal education funds has been prevented since the department announced its mass cuts on March 11. The system of the Federal Federal Funding Division became inaccessible on March 12. When some users tried the reserve website listed, they received a signal that said that “due to severe staff assistants, you can expect to have fun in connecting to connect live.

Many public university systems would face an “existential threat” if students did not receive their federal assistance for grant on time, the claim said.

The claim also emphasizes that the obligations to supervise the department may be compromised due to cuts. For example, the admissibility and supervision group of school services helps to ensure that campuses receiving federal money for financial assistance followed rules governing the violation of these funds. The dismissal of the Department of Effectively eliminating this division, the costume says.

Today’s lawsuit is the eighth filed by Bont and other general democratic lawyers. Bont and other general democratic lawyers, who brought a case today, brought seven others against the Trump administration. They said they would continue to sue when they believe that Trump had violated the law or acted outside his authority.

Today, a judge in San Francisco has been ranked by general lawyers in one of their previous lawsuits related to the reduction of Trump’s federal workforce. The judge ordered the federal government to Re -thousands of workers which were released by six agencies.