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Secretary of Education points out that the government shutdown shows her department is unneeded
Amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, Education Secretary Linda McMahon pointed out that the shutdown proves that her department is not needed.
The Education Department laid off almost everyone in its special education division. From 504 plans to IEPs, here's how programs could be affected.
On Friday, the Trump administration began laying off 466 Education Department employees. These cuts reduce the workforce by nearly 20%. The agency will now operate with fewer than half the staff it had when President Trump took office in January 2021.
The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws.
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The Trump Administration Is Leveraging the Shutdown to Gut the Office of Special Education Programs
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Education experts warn of potential disruptions to the oversight of civil rights protections and funding reimbursements due to severe staff reductions.
About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.
The US Department of Education has issued layoff notices to over 460 staff, threatening more than 40 student grant programs, including Title I and IDE
The post Trump’s Department Of Education Just Wiped Out Its Special Education Office, Laying Off Almost All Staff appeared first on Blavity. The president answered his own question about whether the White House press secretary should be replaced.
A federal program called TRIO that provides tutoring and other support to non-traditional college students, like veterans, could be eliminated.
A federal judge in Oregon said on Monday she will block President Donald Trump's administration from forcing a group of Democratic-led states led by Washington, Oregon and Minnesota to remove all references to "gender ideology" from sexual health education curricula in order to receive federal grant funding.
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