Largest Teachers Union Slams 'unlawful' Cuts To Department Of Education After Supreme Court Ruling

The president of nan nation's largest teachers' union, nan National Education Association, slammed nan Supreme Court's ruling connected Monday for siding pinch nan Trump management connected dismantling nan Department of Education. 

"Everyone who cares astir America’s students and nationalist schools should beryllium appalled by nan Supreme Court’s premature involution successful this lawsuit today, which stays preliminary alleviation ordered by nan little courts. Today’s determination does not resoluteness nan underlying merits of Trump’s unlawful scheme to destruct nan Department of Education," Becky Pringle said successful a statement.

She added, "Parents, educators, and organization leaders won’t beryllium silent arsenic Trump and his friends return a wrecking shot to nationalist schools and nan futures of nan 50 cardinal students successful rural, suburban, and municipality communities crossed America. We will proceed to organize, advocate, and mobilize until each students person nan opportunity to be nan well-resourced nationalist schools wherever they tin thrive." 

President Donald Trump's scheme to trim nan Department of Education is still "unlawful" contempt nan Supreme Court ruling, according to Becky Pringle, president of nan National Education Association. (Getty Images)

The Supreme Court cleared nan measurement for nan Trump management to occurrence hundreds of Department of Education employees, a move that advances President Donald Trump's plans to dismantle nan department. The precocious court's determination successful McMahon v. State of New York was issued 6-3 on ideological lines.

The determination temporarily pauses an bid by a little tribunal judge that had reinstated astir 1,400 labor astatine nan Department of Education.

The Supreme Court's bid arose from 2 lawsuits, including 1 brought by 20 Democratic-led states that challenged nan Education Department Sec. Linda McMahon's layoffs and planned closure.  (Valerie Plesch/picture confederation via Getty Images; Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In March, Education Secretary Linda McMahon laid disconnected half of nan department's workforce arsenic portion of nan Trump administration's broader simplification successful authorities efforts. Later that month, Trump announced successful an executive bid that he planned to shutter nan section altogether.

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The Supreme Court's bid arose from 2 lawsuits, including 1 brought by 20 Democratic-led states that challenged nan Education Department's layoffs and planned closure.

McMahon praised nan ruling, vowing that nan national agency tin now "carry retired nan simplification successful unit to beforehand ratio and accountability and to return acquisition backmost to nan states."

Trump signed an executive bid connected his scheme to dismantle nan Department of Education. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"Today, nan Supreme Court again confirmed nan obvious: nan President of nan United States, arsenic nan caput of nan Executive Branch, has nan eventual authority to make decisions astir staffing levels, administrative organization, and day-to-day operations of national agencies," McMahon said connected X. "While today’s ruling is simply a important triumph for students and families, it is simply a shame that nan highest tribunal successful nan onshore had to measurement successful to let President Trump to beforehand nan reforms Americans elected him to present utilizing nan authorities granted to him by nan U.S. Constitution."

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Fox News' Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.