WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to dismantle the United States Department of Education following intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court, which prompted praise from the White House and outcry from the nation’s largest teachers’ union.

President Trump on Monday said that Education Secretary Linda McMahon will begin the process of dismantling the Education Department in the wake of the Supreme Court decision allowing the