President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to allow officials to gut the Department of Education, a key priority for the president that has been stymied by a series of lower court decisions.

Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to permit it to proceed with dismantling the Department of Education, a move that would leave school policy in the United States almost entirely in the hands of states and local boards.

The emergency appeal comes just days after the First US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston refused to overturn a lower court ruling that temporarily blocked large-scale layoffs at the department, acco