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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.
The data comes from NWEA, a K-12 testing and research organization, and its Spring 2025 MAP Growth Assessment, a suite of tests taken by millions of students in thousands of schools across the U.S.
In reading, students across most grade levels are still performing at or even below pandemic lows.
NWEA said this stagnation is consistent regardless of race, ethnicity, or school poverty level.
In math, the news was only slightly better.
Achievement either held steady or, in some grades, improved slightly, though nearly all grades remain behind the performance levels of kids in those same grades back in 2019.
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Edelman is about as good of a draw as she could have ever hoped for.
Edelman is about as good of a draw as she could have ever hoped for.
The federal school voucher plan has been included in Republicans' reconciliation bill, and if it becomes law, would work like this. A private citizen could make a charitable donation to a non-profit third party known as an SGO, or Scholarship Granting Organization.
The federal school voucher plan has been included in Republicans' reconciliation bill, and if it becomes law, would work like this. A private citizen could make a charitable donation to a non-profit third party known as an SGO, or Scholarship Granting Organization.