Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff
The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
Trump cuts Education Department in half after laying off 1,300 workers
Roughly 1,300 Education Department staffers received layoff notices Tuesday, a Trump administration official said.
The Education Department Cuts Nearly 2,000 Employees: What to Know
The Department of Education announced it was cutting about 2,000 staff members, seemingly the first step in fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to dissolve the agency entirely.
Education Department documents detail massive scope of agency worker terminations
The Trump administration’s steep workforce cuts at the Education Department include hundreds of attorneys, student aid workers and civil rights office staff, according to agency documents obtained by POLITICO.
Students, teachers sound off on Education Department layoffs, funding cuts
Former students and teachers are reacting to the Trump administration's funding cuts and layoffs at the Department of Education.
Education Department cut by half. Will Trump still try to shut it down?
The cuts come after President Donald Trump promised to shut down the Education Department. Critics argue cutbacks are less about improving student outcomes and more about instituting a conservative agenda.
Education Department, with mass layoff, cuts nearly half its staff
The staff reductions are the latest effort by the Trump administration to decrease the federal government’s role in education.
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