Us, July 17 -- The US Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the green light to resume layoffs of over 1,300 employees at the Department of Education and press forward with a controversial plan to dismantle the agency altogether.

In an unsigned order, the justices lifted a lower court's block on the firings, enabling President Donald Trump to push ahead with one of his boldest efforts to shrink the federal government and shift power over education back to the states.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from The South Asian Times....