It was rather a day for education news last Thursday: by now you will have seen that U.S. District Judge Myong Joun1 issued an injunction in the two cases filed in U.S. District Court that were before him:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is among the plaintiffs in the first case; Somerville and Easthampton Public Schools2, alongside AFT, AFT-MA, AFSCME Council 93, American Association of University Professors, and SEIU are the second. They're being taken together.
Not only does the injunction block the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education while the case goes forward; it also orders the reinstatement of 1400 laid-off federal workers.
While what ensues at this point of course remains to be seen, I would recommend reading the injunction should this case or even topic be of interest. How judges frame discussions matter, and in Judge Joun, we have some good thinking on why U.S. DoE matters.
