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.
Oh man, all of Eric’s teachers are gone now.
More Trump family retribution I guess.
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
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.
What a disgrace!
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.
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
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
It’s Calvinball, but with the government
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.
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.
Nazi Eugenics + no abortion ever = ???
They need a continuing ‘supply of undesirables’ to maintain their farce.
The Republicans want those kids to die, so this is a win for them.
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.)
All pregnancies with congenital anomalies should be carried to term.
Yes, because they think you deserve to suffer for not producing genetically acceptable machine fodder.
Yes, but they think that once they’re born, they should die
Why? So they can collect the medical bills first?
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…
linda mchamon was put there to dissolve DOE, betsy devos was just a trial run.
Here’s all that compassion that we’ve been promising you.
They cured autism everyone, who needs special ed now!
Project 2025 Aktion T4 plan initiated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
Fucking wow. It hurts every time I read about these atrocities.
I thought the government was shut down? How are they still doing things?
This is the time when trumps footsoldiers will be busiest
Shutdown means employees don’t get paid. Everyone in Trump’s upper administration is very independently wealthy. (Yes, even the interns)
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
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 assume they’re going to do the absolute worst things they can and 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. where even the “good” ones like buttigieg will sell the country out in a heartbeat, like sure they’re not directly fucking you…but they’re definitely playing favorites.
devil you know vs. the one you don’t
This was always the plan. They’re just using the shutdown as an excuse.
IMO they created the shutdown as an excuse
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.
From what ive heard alot of republican states depend on SPED more heavily than blue ones.
How’s Barron gonna graduate college now?
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…
American degrees are bought not earned.
