The Trump Administration Is Leveraging the Shutdown to Gut the Office of Special Education Programs

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Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of ...

Protect agencies that ensure we do right by every student (Guest Opinion by Rep. John Mannion)

Democrat from Geddes proposes legislation to prevent Trump administration from firing Education Department staffers who ...
Government Executive

Shutdown layoffs would boost energy costs, increase overdoses and slash oversight, Democrats say

In a series of letters to administration officials, the Democrats, led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the party’s top ...

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of ...
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Trump Administration Yanks Funds From Dozens Of Special Education Programs

The U.S. Department of Education is canceling millions of dollars in grants for special education teacher training, parent resource centers and more saying that they don’t align with Trump ...