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

Education Department cuts half its staff

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - President Donald Trump is defending mass layoffs at the Department of Education. The administration says it’s a step toward closing the department completely. Education Department officials this week announced plans to lay off more than 1,300 employees. That puts the agency at about half its size since President Trump took office. "We want to cut the people that aren't working or not doing a good job. We're keeping the bes…

The Latest: Education Department guts its civil rights office

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs. The office has already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the nation. Among a total of more…

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.

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.

‘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…