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.

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    21 hours ago

    This punishes parents with special needs kids. Medical babysitting while they’re at work, instead of special ed programs at a public school will break many.

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        But they’re pro life. All pregnancies with congenital anomalies should be carried to term. Neural tube defects that go so far as to produce a child with a smooth brain 100% should be born. (Those kids live, medulla and such keeps them alive and growing to teens and beyond.)

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      They’ve all got Nazi eugenics aspirations. Harming special needs people makes them happy but harming their parents, to them, is fixing the glitch. Once again, the cruelty is the point.