(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Education opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan on Tuesday, saying it found "inaccurate and incomplete disclosures" in a review of the university's foreign reports.

A federal judge had ruled that the Trump administration is seeking to "effectively dismantle" the department without necessary approval from Congress.

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court paused a lower court order that had reinstated 1,400 Education Department employees laid off by the Trump's administration.

The president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association, slammed the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday for siding with the Trump administration on dismantling the Department of Education.

The Supreme Court on Monday said President Donald Trump may proceed with his plan to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education in the latest win for the White House at the conservative high court.

President Trump on Monday said that Education Secretary Linda McMahon will begin the process of dismantling the Education Department in the wake of the Supreme Court decision allowing the

Colorado has joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over a freeze in essential education funding.

The United States Department of Education was born as a political payoff by then-president Jimmy Carter to reward teachers’ unions for supporting his candidacy. While it doesn’t operate any schools or educate any children,