The Trump administration is imploring a federal court to bin a lawsuit challenging the wholesale restructuring of the U.S. Department of Education.

On March 20, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled " Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities ." The order broadly summarizes the 45th and 47th president's long-promised plans to shutter the Jimmy Carter-era agency. Prior to that, Education Secretary Linda McMahon had issued a series of directives – including mass firings and grant rescissions – geared toward dismantling the agency.

A coalition of plaintiffs led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sued four days after the executive order was issued, calling the federal government's actions "unconstituti

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