NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Petrilli, head of the education policy thinktank Thomas B. Fordham Institute, about the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Education Department.

The initiative is aimed at preparing students for high-wage, in-demand careers.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Trump administration can resume its dismantling of the Department of Education.

More than 20 states sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday over billions of dollars in frozen education funding for after-school care, summer programs and more.

The money was slated to fund teacher coordinators, multilingual specialists, literacy tutors, counselors and more.

The Trump administration had appealed a decision that had directed it to stop gutting the U.S. Education Department and to reinstate many of the workers the government had laid off.

The federal government released an executive order about advancing AI education back in April.

The lawsuit comes two weeks after the Trump administration first notified states it was withholding previously approved funds for migrant education, before- and after- school programs and more.

This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. And research shows most online programs cost as much or more than in-person. This story was produced in collaboration with The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

The participating organizations are implementing a research-based tool called the Early Development Instrument, which measures how children are growing in areas like language, social competence and emotional maturity.