Federal courts dealt a rare legal blow to the Trump administration’s education policies on Thursday, striking down two key actions by the U.S. Department of Education as unlawful. Judges in separate cases ruled against the government’s attempts to cancel existing regulations, signaling potential obstacles for the administration’s push to reshape federal education oversight. The decisions highlight growing judicial scrutiny over executive branch efforts to roll back long-standing education rules without proper justification. Legal challenges could now complicate the administration’s broader agenda of deregulation in K-12 and higher education.
The second Trump administration’s education agenda suffered two setbacks in federal court on Thursday, as judges ruled in separate cases that the U.S. Department of Education unlawfully canceled ...