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What does the Department of Education do? Its role and the push to abolish it
Beyond funding, the agency enforces anti-discrimination laws through its Office for Civil Rights, handling complaints related ...
The Education Department was created to ensure equal access. Who would do that in its absence?
Advocates worry the federal government would not look out in the same way for poor students, those still learning English, ...
Education Department to cut roughly half its staff
Around 3,000 people work in the department's Washington headquarters, and about 1,000 are in 10 regional offices across the ...
Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...
Department of Education cuts half its workforce
The Department of Education cut half its workforce amid President Trump’s effort to abolish the agency. Trump touted the cuts ...
The Department of Education just laid off half its staff. How will that affect local schools?
The U.S. DOE just laid off over 1,000 people — nearly half of its workforce. Schools and education experts worry about the ...
Education Department cuts half its staff as Trump vows to dismantle agency
The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s ...
Department of Education lays off nearly 50% of its workforce
The Department of Education initiated mass layoffs on Tuesday night, reducing its workforce by nearly 50%, sources told ABC News. The "reduction in force" notices began to go out at about 6 p.m.
Education Department cuts half its staff
The administration says it’s a step toward closing the department completely. Education Department officials this week ...
US Education Department to cut half its staff as Trump eyes its elimination
The terminations are part of the department's "final mission," it said in a press release, alluding to Trump's vow to eliminate the department.