The Thursday lawsuit said laying off nearly 2,000 people at the department will hurt schools and universities across the country.

AGs from 20 states say the layoffs are so severe that the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory requirements.”

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and twenty other attorneys general throughout the country have joined a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's layoffs at the Department of Education.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing the Trump Administration following layoffs under the Department of Education.

The lawsuit says 1,300 employees at the department have lost their jobs already, or approximately half the staff.