Author: John Power
Published on: 12/03/2025 | 00:00:00
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United States Department of Education announces it will lay off almost half of its employees. The department said on Tuesday that it would reduce the size of its workforce to roughly 2,183. It said it would continue to provide “all statutory programs” falling under its purview. Trump campaigned on abolishing the Department of the Education, which he claimed had been infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists” and passing responsibility for education to individual states and local school districts. In an exchange with reporters last month, the US president said that he had told McMahon that she wanted her to “put herself out of a job”
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