WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) joined 34 Senate Democrats to send a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon slamming her recent announcement (https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-six-new-agency-partnerships-break-federal-bureaucracy) that the Department of Education has illegally outsourced core functions that New Mexico students and their families rely on - and calling on Secretary McMahon to reverse these latest steps to dismantle the Department of Education.
"The actions you announced on November 18th to continue hollowing out the U.S. Department of Education ...