White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 14, 2025, 6:22 p.m. ET | Sarah Mervosh, Michael C. Bender and Dana Goldstein

[E. Pluribus Unum]

About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.

A pair of decades-old promises from Congress — ensuring disabled students receive a free and appropriate education and protecting all pupils from discrimination in schools — have been thrown into doubt after a round of sweeping layoffs at the Education Department.

The department’s Office of Special Education Programs was decimated by the cuts, which the Trump administration issued on Friday in its latest reduction of the federal work force. The special education office has been the principal government arm overseeing billions of dollars that support about 10 percent of the nation’s school-aged children, but will have fewer than a half-dozen employees, a reduction of about 95 percent since the start of the year.

The Office of Civil Rights in the department was also slashed. After starting the year with 12 regional sites, the Office of Civil Rights was cut in half in March and may go down to a site or two when the layoffs take effect in 60 days, according to data compiled by the union representing education workers. Over 22,600 discrimination complaints in schools were filed with the department last year, more than double the number from five years earlier.

And the layoffs gutted the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which oversees a wide range of funding for states and school districts. The firings included a team of employees who oversee federal funding for low-income students, known as Title I, which is the largest source of federal funding to school districts, according to three Education Department employees with knowledge of the cuts.

About 466 workers at the Education Department have been fired since Friday, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the breadth...

[tumblindice]

Coool! More more!!!

[twister881]

I can feel the collective IQ of the nation’s schoolchildren beginning to rise.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs

White House frees the country from the horrible tyranny of Federal Department of Indoctrination

There, fixed it.

[slapshot]

Advice for the riffed woke slugs who could not hack it in the private sector- Lean these 6 words: DO you want fries with that?

[Texas Eagle]

Meanwhile.....

America Is Sliding Towards Illiteracy

A lot of good they were doing.

[Libloather]

...Over 22,600 discrimination complaints...

Trannys?

[frank ballenger]

A few months ago a Dem said on TV: Trump and his supporters need to have a country of uneducated people as they take over with tyranny so they won’t know what’s going on.

After decades of teachers’ union member anti-American woke, BLM supporting traitors brainwashing students who grow up to vote Dem and believe “socialism” is fine and killing GOP opponents is justified depending on the situation. And most can read at a 4-5th grade level as they graduate from high school.

[metmom]

GOOD!!!!

Next they need to gut it completely with completely eliminating the department.

[FLT-bird]

I thought the Dept of Education had been abolished already.

[frank ballenger]

Fools think the Dept. of Education funds the classes and schools for their children while actually almost every penny is from the local and state citizens’ taxes. Federal Govt. funds 11-14% through targeted programs. Such as funding for minority programs.

Education Dept. itself thinks big thoughts about thinking. For billions of dollars a year.

[wny]

As long as one remains, there hasn’t been enough layoffs

[jmacusa]

Teacher: “Johnny give me two pronouns!’’

Johnny: “Who, me?’’

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I thought the Dept of Education had been abolished already.

A traffic court judge blocked it. 🤡

[Frank Drebin]

The Department of Education was never intended to improve the academic skills of our young people, but they were trying to ‘educate’ them.

[jmacusa]

And those are just the positive attributes they’ve been taught.

Er. ah.. brainwashed.

[goodnesswins]

YAY!!!

M ore like Uneducation department...as results show

[tumblindice]

State test scores are in for Chicago Public Schools, and fewer than 1-in-3 students could read and fewer than 1-in-5 do math at their elementary grade level in 2024.

It was worse for the district’s 11th graders: fewer than 1 in 4 could read and math scores dropped nearly a percentage point from 2023.

They would be better off apprenticed and learning a trade.

[crusty old prospector]

Fo shizzle. I ain’t fixin’ no cracka’s ride.

[Petrosius]

Education is a local responsibility. It is none of the business of the feds.