A blind woman, a ‘dream job,’ and the toll of the government shutdown
FIRED: Meet the Employees Inside the Collapse of the Department of Education
In this video, YouTuber Mrs. Frazzled interviews three former U.S. Department of Education employees who were suddenly fired from jobs that are legally required and protect millions of students. These workers oversaw programs for low-income students, first-generation students, disabled students, and deaf, blind, and deaf-blind students across the country…until their entire offices were eliminated.
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Trump’s Push for More Admissions Data Collides with a Hollowed-out Education Department
From FedScoop
The Trump administration wants the Education Department to collect more college admissions data, even as it slashes the very staff that ensures the statistics are credible and accurate.
From early childhood to K-12 and higher education, schools across the country have relied for decades on the Education Department’s data collections to inform policy. President Donald Trump now wants to leverage it to investigate whether race-based preferences are used in college admissions.
But with the agency’s research offices gutted, various data collection contracts in limbo and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) — the agency’s statistical branch — left with just three employees, questions swirl over whether the task is feasible.
Laid off Department of Education worker speaks out on Trump administration’s shakeup
From MSNBC
AFGE 252 Member Jason Cottrell joined MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports to discuss the massive layoffs happening at ED and the impacts it will have on students.
AFGE Local 252: The Education Department is paying us millions not to work
From the Washington Post (by Sheria Smith and Brittany Coleman of AFGE Local 252)
Three months ago, on March 11, we were laid off from our positions as civil rights attorneys for the Education Department by the education secretary and U.S. DOGE Service. But it wasn’t just the two of us — roughly 1,400 of our colleagues working across the department were laid off as part of a nearly 50 percent reduction-in-force order from the Trump administration.
Starting June 9, we were supposed to be officially terminated from our roles as federal employees. But that isn’t happening. Instead, we’re caught in legal limbo, unable to do vital work while judges sort through the White House’s legally absurd attempt to shut down the department. It’s an outrageous waste of time and money while we wait for the courts to put an end to this destructive exercise.
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