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The department says it has signed six agreements with other federal agencies to essentially outsource the work of the education department.
For example, work normally done by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education will be moving to the Department of Labor, as will the work of the Office of Post-Secondary Education.
Other work will shift to the State Department, Interior, and HHS.
Staff will also be moving, with just a few Education Department leaders remaining behind to provide oversight.
The Trump administration says this is all part of its plan to return education to the states.
Critics say these offices were placed at the Education Department by Congress, and only Congress can move them.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a public employee union that represents Education Department workers.
Soon after the shutdown began, the Trump administration replaced workers' out-of-office email notifications with partisan language, blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.
The union sued, and Friday, U.S.
District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his decision that, quote, when government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights, and they certainly do not sign up to be a billboard for any given administration's partisan views.
Cooper ordered the department to restore union members' personal out-of-office email notices, and the department did not respond to a request for comment.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a public employee union that represents Education Department workers.
Soon after the shutdown began, the Trump administration replaced workers' out-of-office email notifications with partisan language, blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.
The union sued, and Friday, U.S.
District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his decision that, quote, when government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights, and they certainly do not sign up to be a billboard for any given administration's partisan views.
Cooper ordered the department to restore union members' personal out-of-office email notices, and the department did not respond to a request for comment.