Donald TrumpThe administration asked the United States Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to dismantle the Ministry of Education, a decision that would leave school policy in the United States almost entirely in the hands of states and local councils.
The Ministry of Justice asked the court to interrupt the decision of May 22 of the American judge of the American judge of Boston, the district judge of Boston, who ordered the administration to reintegrate the employees dismissed by a mass layout and to put an end to other actions to close the ministry.
The Ministry of Justice said that the lower court lacked jurisdiction to “guess internal management decisions of the executive”, referring to the executive power of the federal government.
“The government has been clear to recognize that only Congress can eliminate the Ministry of Education. And the government has recognized the need to maintain enough personnel to continue to fulfill law enforcement and have maintained staff who, in its judgment, is necessary for these tasks. The disputed (reduction of force) is fully consistent with this approach,” said the file.
The Department, created by an American law adopted by the congress in 1979, oversees around 100,000 private public schools and 34,000 private schools in the United States, although more than 85% of the financing of public schools comes from public and local governments.
It offers federal subsidies for schools and programs in need, including money to pay for teachers of children with special needs, finance arts programs and replace obsolete infrastructure. He also oversees the $ 1.6 billion of student loans held by tens of millions of Americans who cannot afford to pay for the college.
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Trump’s decision to dismantle the department is part of the Republican president’s campaign to reduce and reshape the federal government. The closure of the department has long been the objective of many American conservatives.
The prosecutors general of 20 States and the District of Columbia, as well as school districts and unions representing teachers, continued to block the efforts of the Trump administration to empty the department. States have argued that the cuts of massive jobs will make the agency incapable of carrying out basic functions authorized by law, including in the field of civil rights, actually usurping the authority of the Congress in violation of the American Constitution.
On March 20, Trump signed an executive decree intended to effectively close the Department, which made a long -standing campaign promise for the conservatives to move the educational policy almost completely to local states and councils. During a white house ceremony surrounded by children and educators, Trump qualified the order to “eliminate” the department.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, announced on March 11 to make a mass dismissal of employees. These layoffs would leave the department with 2,183 workers, down 4,133 when Trump took office in January. The ministry said that in a press release, these layoffs were part of its “final mission”.
Trump, on March 21, announced its intention to transfer the ministry’s student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration and its special services, nutrition and related services to the American Department of Health and Social Services, which also faces deep guards.
Joun, in his decision, ordered the administration to restore dismissed workers and stop the implementation of the Trump directive to transfer student loans and special needs programs to other federal agencies.
The judge rejected the argument put forward by the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice that mass dismissals aimed to make the department more effective while fulfilling its mission. In fact, judged Joun, job cuts were an effort to close the department without the necessary approval of the congress.
“This court cannot be invited to cover their eyes while the employees of the ministry are continuously dismissed and the units are transferred until the ministry becomes a shell of itself,” wrote the judge.
The White House spokesman Harrison Fields called for the decision of the “erroneous” judge.
On June 4, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Boston, rejected the Trump administration’s request to suspend the injunction issued by Joun.
–Report by John Kruzel