Posted on 04/11/2025 9:29:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Over 1,300 federal employees impacted by the Department of Education’s March 11 reduction in force received their official separation notices Thursday, according to copies reviewed by ABC News.
“It is with great regret that I must inform you that your position is being abolished and you have been reached for reduction in force (RIF) action,” the notices read, in part.
The RIF was one of the first major steps in massively reducing the Education Department after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to close the agency on March 20.
Both Trump and McMahon have suggested they will continue reducing the size of the agency and return education power and decisions to the states. […]
“What they’re doing is illegal,” (NAACP Chief of Policy and Legislative Affairs Patrice) Willoughby told ABC News. “They know it’s illegal. It creates damage to people. They’re damaging not only what they say is the deep state — really dedicated federal workers who are working professionally on behalf of education families and young people but they’re also damaging these families and these kids in these communities, many of them who voted for this administration and the constituents of these senators and representatives, who are saying nothing about it.” …
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For every federal worker let go the federal tax burden of 40 Americans goes away.
I’m hugging myself 😁
Abolishing the $3+ trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t is KEY and ESSENTIAL to the recovery of our Free Constitutional Republic which will MAGA!!!!
And an angel gets its wings!
“Department of Indoctrination”
They had the chance to take the deferred resignation deal and get paid until the end of September so hopefully that takes the wind out of any activist District judge’s injunction. Self-important dopes.
What The “Peanut Farmer” did to create you worthless job should have been rejected immediately. I had to live though your BS. Number 3 in the world educationally to 38. 3rd best to horse manure at best. Go pound sand!
Too bad notice isn’t delivered using confetti cannons and cupcakes.
“It is with great regret that I must inform you that your position is being abolished and you have been reached for reduction in force (RIF) action,” the notices read, in part.”
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I got one of those RIF notices back in 1993 and it was worded almost identically......know what I did?.......I began making plans to find another damned job!....and everyone that got one at my facility were all “essential” employees.
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What I didn’t do was run to the news media and whine about it.
Abolished seems like such an insensitive word. I think aborted would be more sympathetic.
We kid ourselves if we think this is going to solve the “education problem”. The “leftist Educrat-style thinking” has had two generations at least to spread to college\university Ed departments, and state\county education departments. The teachers’ unions supports it because it provides the militancy to keep the local ed unions politically powerful. It’s going to be a long hard haul to purge these state & local copies of DOE.
A good reporter would ask something like "What exactly did you do at the DOE that a school district could not do for itself?"
I have yet to read what exactly the DOE does that is invaluable to the education of children or young adults.
I do know one teacher that told me he is overjoyed that the DOE is ending, and says that he will have a lot more time to do useful things.
“received their official separation notices Thursday”
I’m surprised they didn’t get the RIF letters on Friday afternoon......that’s when everyone got theirs at my facility back in the 90s.....the letters were handed out in the cafeteria and then we were all routed to the parking lot with no detours allowed.
Reason for the Friday afternoon hand out was to give people a 2 day cooling off period......that idea was only partly successful. 😏
Education families??? Wait, what? Huh? What does that even mean?😳
This the Communist Broadcasting System.
The reporters ran to them.
The Democrat's propaganda machine does not wait for the news to come to them, they run out and make the news that they want to report.
There was a big reduction in force at my place of employment in 92. They had two security guards come to your desk with a box. They let you clean out your desk while they waited. The then took your ID badge and any company keys, pagers or other things related to your job and escorted you to your job.
No letter or prior notification of your separation from your employment.
Word I got from the guards is that there was quite a variation in the response from those given a box. One that I heard about threatened to come back kill people.
“One that I heard about threatened to come back kill people.”
That’s exactly the reaction the end of the week notification was meant to mitigate where I was.....and yeah, when HR did the mass handout there was armrd security all over the place.
My facility actually provided a grace period of several months before separation......by the time the dust settled I ended up not missing a day......that whole experience freakin’ trip, I can tell you that. SMH
Who has the DOE educated since its founding? Student performance has fallen ever since. It’s a democrat party money laundering scam. Abolish it all.
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