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Department of Education faces up to 50% layoffs after closure notice: Report

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is losing nearly half its staff, with about 240 layoffs affecting the office's ability to handle thousands of discrimination cases.
Seven regional offices, including those in New York and Chicago, will be closed, impacting support for students and families.
The Trump administration has not specified how it will manage the backlog of cases, with complaints pending climbing to over 20,000 when the case freeze was lifted last week.
Critics fear that families will wait years for resolutions due to the backlog of cases.

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Why student-loan borrowers ‘are going to feel the brunt’ of the Education Department layoffs

The cuts come during what was already set to be a period of mass upheaval for the student-loan system.

12 hours ago·United States

US Education Department to lay off half its staff, CNN reports

The U.S. Department of Education is expected to cut approximately half of its 4,000 employees in sweeping layoffs set to begin on Tuesday evening, CNN reported, citing three people familiar with the plan.

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‘A Tsunami Coming From Washington’: Chicago, Illinois Leaders Respond to Education Department Layoffs – WTTW (Chicago)

“The rest of the world, and in particular the rest of this country, they are going to understand what it feels like to have to fight policies that come from people who do not honor children and what they need in their classrooms,” Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates said at a press conference. “(Former Chicago Mayor) Rahm Emanuel destroyed our public education system. Donald Trump is about to destroy the special education system f…

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NewsBusters

PBS Journo Claims 'Poor and People Of Color' Will Suffer Most From Education Dept. Closing

PBS Journo Claims 'Poor and People Of Color' Will Suffer Most From Education Dept. Closing PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to freak out about President Donald Trump’s plans to close, or at least downsize, the Department of Education. As Barron-Lopez tells it, Trump is trying to privatize public education, and shuttering the department will start a domino effect tha…

13 hours ago·Washington, United States

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Vox

Conservatives’ decades-long quest to destroy the Department of Education

Trump has already cut the department’s staff in half. He won’t stop there.

16 hours ago·United States

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Time Magazine

The Long Fight Against the Department of Education

On the campaign trail and in office, President Donald Trump has called for the elimination of the Department of Education. Many believed the proposal would face legal challenges because Congress created the Department by law and approves its budget. However, on Tuesday, the Department of Education announced plans to cut nearly 50% of its workforce. Even entirely eliminating the Department of Education would not considerably reduce the size of th…

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