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…

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.

The U.S. Department of Education plans to fire more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization's staff, a prelude to President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the agency.

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…

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…