The Education Department has pledged to carry out required functions, but questions remain about its plan for contending with the loss of staff.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to dismantle the United States Department of Education following intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court, which prompted praise from the White House and outcry from the nation’s largest teachers’ union.