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Trump Taps His Most Trusted Lawyers for Key Government Roles
(Bloomberg) -- As a private citizen, Donald Trump surrounded himself with lawyers who defended him in myriad lawsuits and business disputes, sometimes — though not always — with remarkable success. As ...
CNN
Linda McMahon is dismantling the Education Department — but first she’ll help make school ‘patriotic’ again
Linda McMahon, the US education secretary, has a uniquely fateful task: President Donald Trump wants her to be the last person ever to run the agency he’s long sought to dismantle. Yet even as she has ...
The New York Times
No Education Department? No Problem, Trump’s Education Secretary Says.
The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws. By Sarah Mervosh and Michael ...
Univeristy of Iowa Daily Iowan
Former Iowa Regent David Barker appointed to U.S. Department of Education
David Barker, a former Iowa Board of Regents member, was appointed the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the U.S. Department of Education Wednesday. Barker was nominated for the ...
The New York Times
White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs
About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement. By Sarah Mervosh Michael C.
Disability Scoop
Ed Department Making Plans To Offload Special Education
The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...