Civil rights investigations, student loan borrowing and financial aid are among the areas that will be affected by a department with diminished capacity.

The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to move forward with efforts to dismantle the Education Department. Here's what the agency does.

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to gut the Department of Education through mass firings. Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Angélica Infante-Green, whose state is one of 24 suing the Trump administration over $6.