On the recordMay 21, 2025
Today, the court rightly rejected one of the administration's very first illegal, and consequential, acts: abolishing the federal role in education.
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Randi Weingarten
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abcnews.go.comToday, the court rightly rejected one of the administration's very first illegal, and consequential, acts: abolishing the federal role in education.
Weingarten praised the ruling for protecting the federal role in education.
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