{"id":12332,"date":"2025-03-12T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/education-department-fires-1300-workers-gutting-its-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:15:07","slug":"education-department-fires-1300-workers-gutting-its-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/education-department-fires-1300-workers-gutting-its-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Education Department announced on Tuesday that it was firing more than 1,300 workers, effectively gutting the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The layoffs mean that the department, which started the year with 4,133 employees, will now have a work force of about half that size after less than two months with President Trump in office. In addition to the 1,315 workers who were fired on Tuesday, 572 employees accepted separation packages offered in recent weeks and 63 probationary workers were terminated last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cuts could portend an additional move by Mr. Trump to essentially dismantle the department, as he has said he wants to do, even though it cannot be closed without the approval of Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Linda McMahon, the education secretary, described the layoffs as part of an effort to deliver services more efficiently and said the changes would not affect student loans, Pell Grants, funding for special needs students or competitive grant making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cToday\u2019s reduction in force reflects the Department of Education\u2019s commitment to efficiency, accountability and ensuring that resources are directed where they matter most: to students, parents and teachers,\u201d Ms. McMahon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, wrote on social media that he had spoken with Ms. McMahon and received assurance that cuts would not affect the department\u2019s \u201cability to carry out its statutory obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sheria Smith, the president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents more than 2,800 workers at the Education Department, said the Trump administration had \u201cno respect for the thousands of workers who have dedicated their careers to serve their fellow Americans\u201d and vowed to fight the cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The department\u2019s Office of Civil Rights had particularly steep cuts, with regional centers shuttered or reduced to a skeleton crew, including those in New York, San Francisco and Boston. The office, already understaffed, regularly struggled to work through lengthy civil rights investigations. It had accumulated a heavy backlog of cases under the Biden administration after protests roiled campuses across the country last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe will not stand idly by while this regime pulls the wool over the eyes of the American people,\u201d Ms. Smith said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, the nation\u2019s largest teachers union, said the changes would drain job training programs and increase costs of higher education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe real victims will be our most vulnerable students,\u201d Ms. Pringle said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to close the Education Department and instead rely on states and local school districts to fully oversee America\u2019s education system. The president adopted the stringent position during the 2024 campaign to align himself with the parents\u2019 rights movement that grew out of the backlash to school shutdowns and other restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That movement gained steam by organizing around opposition to left-leaning ideas in the curriculum, especially on L.G.B.T.Q. issues and race. Activists contended that those priorities undermined parental rights and values.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview last week on Fox News, Ms. McMahon said Mr. Trump intended to sign an executive order aimed at closing her department, but she declined to give details on the timing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An executive order to dismantle the department would challenge the authority of Congress, which created the department by statute and legally must sign off on any move to close it. In a closely divided Senate, it is unlikely the administration could find enough support to do so, particularly as public opinion polls during the past two months have consistently shown roughly two-thirds of Americans oppose closing the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump may be forging ahead anyway. He has talked about moving some of the agency\u2019s work with student loans to the Treasury Department. Education Department officials visited the Treasury Department on Monday to prepare for the shift, said one person familiar with the planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In her confirmation hearing last month, Ms. McMahon discussed moving civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department and services for disabled students to the Health and Human Services Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for the second Trump term, also laid out a detailed plan for eliminating the department. The proposal envisioned moving much of agency\u2019s work to other arms of the federal government. Student aid, for example, would be handled by the Treasury Department; vocational education by the Labor Department; and disability education by the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rumors about potential layoffs began circulating around the Education Department after workers received an email around 2 p.m. announcing that the agency\u2019s offices in the Washington area would be closed on Wednesday and reopen on Thursday. The email did not provide a reason for the closure, but the administration gave similarly cryptic notices about temporarily closing offices before severe cuts last month at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Department officials later told reporters that the building closure was related to the layoffs, and was done out of an abundance of caution to protect the safety of workers keeping their jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Workers who lost their jobs were informed in emails sent after 6 p.m. on Tuesday, after they had left for the day. They will remain on the payroll for 90 days, receiving full pay and benefits, and be given one week of pay for each of their first 10 years of service and two weeks\u2019 pay for every year of service beyond 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They will also be given time in the coming weeks to return to the department and collect their belongings, agency officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">About 75 former agency workers had gathered outside the department\u2019s headquarters in Washington on Tuesday morning to rally opposition to the cuts pushed by the administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the end of the rally, Dorie Turner Nolt, one of the organizers, urged the crowd members to face the building and cheer their former colleagues inside who, she said, were doing their best to uphold democracy. Several workers inside the building pressed up against the windows, waving their hands and flashing a thumbs-up amid the ovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Later that evening, a woman left the building carrying a stack of government laptops to a group of colleagues waiting at the curb so they could check their emails to see if they were let go. The woman, who declined to give her name out of fear of retribution, said she had worked for years at the agency overseeing payments from the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has radically upended federal agencies at the start of his second term by relying on a team overseen by Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, to shrink and disrupt the federal government. Mr. Musk\u2019s team has taken aim at more than 20 agencies while gaining access to sensitive government data systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. McMahon told Fox last week that she had held regular meetings with Mr. Musk\u2019s team. \u201cI\u2019ve been very appreciative of the things they\u2019ve shown us, some of the waste, and we\u2019re reacting to that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Brent McDonald<!-- -->, <!-- -->Zach Montague<!-- --> and <!-- -->Erica L. 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