Statement from All4Ed CEO Amy Loyd on the Supreme Court’s Decision Allowing the Dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education
July 14, 2025
Contact: Enrique A. Chaurand
Email: echaurand@all4ed.org
Washington, D.C. – Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the Trump administration to proceed with firing of nearly 1,400 workers at the U.S. Department of Education is nothing short of devastating—for students, families, educators, and the future of our public education system.
“The Department of Education was created by Congress through statute and charged with critical, legally mandated responsibilities: protecting students’ civil rights, ensuring equal access to education, and supporting states and districts in serving all learners. But this administration isn’t interested in fulfilling that mission—it is actively working to sabotage it from within.
“Let’s be clear; this callous purge of experienced, mission-driven civil servants is not just bureaucratic reshuffling. It’s an ideological attack on the very foundation of educational opportunity in our nation. It will throw our education system into chaos, disrupt essential programs and services, and deepen inequities at a time when our students—especially our most vulnerable—need strong federal leadership the most.
“What’s more, gutting the department’s workforce will make it more inefficient, more costly, and far less capable of carrying out its responsibilities. This isn’t streamlining—it’s stripping away decades of institutional knowledge built by dedicated public servants who have spent their careers working on behalf of our nation’s students.
“These are real people—with families, expertise, and a deep commitment to public service—who have devoted their lives to advancing educational equity. I believe in their passion and professionalism, and it is a profound blow to our nation that we are losing them. Without them, the department will be reduced to performing only the most basic administrative tasks—unable to lead, support, or protect our nation’s learners and our public schools in any meaningful way.
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor said it best in her powerful dissent: this ruling is “indefensible.” She warned that it “hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out,” and concluded that the Court’s majority “is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naïve, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave.”
“From gutting funding for public schools to promoting private voucher schemes and now dismantling the very agency tasked with ensuring educational equity, the Trump administration has shown time and again that it will stop at nothing to undermine public education. Dismantling the Department of Education is dismantling our nation’s public education system.
“Our students deserve better. They deserve stability, support, and a federal government that works for them—not against them. All4Ed will continue to stand with educators, families, and communities to defend the right of every young person to receive a high-quality public education.”
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