Attorneys general from 20 states joined the lawsuit to block President Trump's effort to dismantle the agency.
The suit from 20 states and the District of Columbia comes two days after the federal agency fired more than 1,300 employees.
Paul Reville is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former Massachusetts secretary of education.
Gov. Maura Healey said some academic services would "go away" if President Trump dissolves the Department of Education.
The challenge from 21 attorneys general comes just days after the Education Department announced it would shrink its staff by ...
Amid plans to slash more than 1,300 jobs from the U.S. Department of Education, a Boston office is also on the chopping block ...
Five years after the pandemic, only 20% of fourth graders who are Black, Latino or from low-income households scored ...
Approximately 1,300 Department of Education employees will be laid off, the Department of Education said in a news release.