The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.
The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency’s employees.
Without an official estimate from the agency, it wasn’t immediately clear how many people in the division were fired. Yet based on reports from staff and their managers, most employees below the leadership level were part of the workforce reduction, said Rachel Gittleman, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252.
linda mchamon was put there to dissolve DOE, betsy devos was just a trial run.
Where I came from, they treat people with disabilities (particularly mentally challenged people) like absolute garbage and there’s rampant discrimination, now America is doing the same.
Holy shit.
So… Cooked…
How’s Barron gonna graduate college now?
American degrees are bought not earned.
Same as before, having daddy pay for his degree(s)… we all know too well, if you have money you can pay for whatever no matter how dumb you are…
Humans: you’re hurting kids with special needs
Trump: fuck them retards
I thought the government was shut down? How are they still doing things?
Shutdown means employees don’t get paid. Everyone in Trump’s upper administration is very independently wealthy. (Yes, even the interns)
This is the time when trumps footsoldiers will be busiest
Oh man, all of Eric’s teachers are gone now.
More Trump family retribution I guess.
Oh look, another parallel to Nazi Germany. I’ll just put it over here with the others…
This is nothing like nazi Germany. For one, there’s a whole ocean between Germany and the United States. For two, that was, like, a million years ago. So… Yeah.
this won’t age well when teachers are hauled out of the classroom for insulting our dear leader.
I will probably be one of them. I finish my master’s of education in June next year.
Just don’t cause trouble and tell people you have an MBA, carry around a copy of the Fountainhead, you’ll pass.
Like what has been happening in Florida and Texas for the last 8 years?
This shit isn’t new.
The states will reduce their special education workforce too and I will have zero sympathy for the MAGA supporters who receive a “you’ve been shit canned” notice.
The shitty ones, the better ones now have unfunded mandates that they will have to fund.
I love how these assholes are firing people at unprecedented rates as a way of somehow punishing Democrats. The Ds refusal to let the current admin double everyone’s medical insurance costs means Rs start dismantling the government as punishment? That’s what the Rs want in the first place. They’re doing exactly what they want while blaming the Democrats for all the negative effects, as is tradition
From what ive heard alot of republican states depend on SPED more heavily than blue ones.
This was always the plan. They’re just using the shutdown as an excuse.
IMO they created the shutdown as an excuse
They’re doing exactly what they want while blaming the Democrats for all the negative effects, as is tradition
They’re doing it because it works, alarmingly well. Sure, many Americans recognize that it’s all just a dishonest tactic, but not enough of us. Many Americans fall for the con, hook, line and sinker.
The numbers are clear. Most people understand and disapprove of this current scam.
many americans are just tired of the game at this point, you know republicans are selfish lying scheming pieces of shit, so you can just plan accordingly.
democrats…you have to do a dive into their entire life history to find out if/how badly they’re going to fuck you.
devil you know vs. the one you don’t
It has nothing to do with the shutdown.
From the article:
In a Friday court filing, the Justice Department said more than 460 Education Department employees had been laid off, cutting roughly a fifth of the agency’s already-hamstrung workforce.
The terminations, which have hit more than half a dozen federal agencies, are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to pressure congressional Democrats to end the ongoing government shutdown. Nearly 90% of the Education Department is furloughed, too.
Perhaps i misinterpreted what it’s saying and it’s just regular, garden-variety destruction of government by the fascists?
That’s just USA Today uncritically repeating the disingenuous messaging of the fascists.
They may SAY that they’re doing it to force shutdown negotiations, but it’s just an excuse. In reality they’ve wanted to eliminate the Education Department since at the very latest 2012, and they just figured that pretending that it’s the Dems fault would spare them the blame when it ruins the lives of millions.
The worst part is that their cult is so thoroughly brainwashed that they’re almost certainly right 😮💨
Yeah, theyve already repeatedly tried to zero out (no funding for) and or close the education department.
I’ve said it before, but they already played their hand and admitted they want/will decimate the federal government one way or another, so it’s not a negotiation tactic.
Cool, Dems should now refuse to reopen the government until ACA subsidies are extended and all these people are hired back. Flinging shit around the room does not mean you have leverage in a negotiation, it just means you should get stuck with the cleaning bill when it’s all over.
All sane Americans should refuse to open society until this stops
Project 2025 Aktion T4 plan initiated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
Fucking wow. It hurts every time I read about these atrocities.
Just because the government is shut down does not mean Trump can do more illegal layoffs.
This makes no sense, they’re just making up rules at this point
It’s Calvinball, but with the government
They’re being taken to court over it already, but since they pushed this out on a Friday we get a weekend of bullshit headlines about it
I’m worried these means of carving up the government are going to get the Democrats to capitulate. They will blame Democrats for everything that gets carved anyway, that was always the plan.
The regime needed to be starved of funds earlier this year. Second best time is now. If the supreme court allows the executive to allocate tarrifs as they want, then the branch still gets some means of funding - probably military and ICE.
There is a flaw with their plan. Yes, we will all suffer greatly, but ever increasing tarrifs on imported goods will result in a decrease on imported goods regardless if they are made in America or not. This means that while they might have a good source of funds secured temporarily, the revenue generated is still bound by math. n * ( price of good * tarrif - price of good) = total revenue. As n approaches 0, revenue approaches 0, regardless if tarrifs grow infinitely.
At some point, even the wealthiest Americans won’t be able to afford the imported good. If nothing is imported, no money is generated, and the executive has nothing to allocate.
They’re definitely aware of this. Hence why they are doing everything they can do to guarantee a 2026 midterm gives them complete control of the house and Senate. They need regular funds back before they can no longer pay ICE and military. That’s coming here very soon.
And the tankies-in-denial will gobble it all up to feed their Dem-blaming compulsion.
They were going to do it anyway. Shut down or not.
They planned for either option and we the people are losing our. Either passing the CR or shutting down the government.
I am so sad. That’s all I can think of right now. So happy to be retired from teaching. So scared for our kids.
Isn’t the government shut down? How can they do anything?!
Some things are still required to operate during a shutdown.
That said, these are illegal layoffs and are already being challenged in court. Unfortunately that also means it will take time, and the supreme court is a complete fucking farce at this point.
