After the Education Department announced mass firings, former Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, of Connecticut, told educators and employees to stay strong.

Since his first term in the White House, President Donald Trump has set his sights on shuttering the Department of Education. Now, as the administration has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in its funding and fired more than half of its workforce,

Three state governors, all former educators, derided the decision to terminate nearly half the federal agency's workforce.