From Politico
The Education Department terminated a swath of its civil service workforce on Wednesday, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
The precise number of affected employees was not immediately clear. Firing notices were distributed to workers in the department’s offices for civil rights, federal student aid and communications, as well as its legal department, according to people who relayed details and documents that substantiated the terminations to POLITICO on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.
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