Sweeping Dept. of Education layoffs lead to uncertainty for future of students with disabilities

How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights

The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.

What dismantling the Education Department means for kids with disabilities

A special education teacher works with a kindergarten student. This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. The news on that front has been chaotic — a draft executive order to close the department was leaked, then walked back by t…

Students with disabilities may receive less support after Education Department layoffs

The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon.

Education Department told to focus on Trump's issues

WASHINGTON — The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is known best for enforcing the right to disability services across America's schools. But under President Donald Trump, it's taking a frontline role in his political battles.

Trump’s Dept. of Education cuts may cause larger PA class sizes and fewer resources for students

Teachers across the commonwealth are warning that President Donald Trump’s mass firings at the Department of Education will lead to larger class sizes and fewer resources for Pennsylvania’s poorest students. Up to $1.6 billion is at risk for the commonwealth.  Leaders from Pennsylvania’s two largest teachers unions warned residents on Wednesday about the reverberations President Donald Trump’s mass firings at the US Department of Education will …