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The U.S. Supreme Court’s explosive decision last month to overturn the Chevron doctrine — a 40-year-old precedent that gave federal agencies wide powers to interpret and apply statutes — is likely to bring sweeping consequences for the U.S. Department of Education and K-12 schools.Rather than defer to the Education Department and other federal agencies’ interpretation of laws, as has been customary since 1984, courts will now rely on their own interpretations of the laws in question.
“Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion on June 28 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. “Courts do.”
