As Education Department Slashes Nearly Half Its Staff, Special Ed Worries Mount

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by Michelle Diament | March 12, 2025

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“Today’s reduction in force reflects the Department of Education’s commitment to efficiency, accountability, and ensuring that resources are directed where they matter most: to students, parents, and teachers,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

Trump has pledged to close the Education Department and McMahon said the workforce reduction is a step toward fulfilling that goal.

“What we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat,” McMahon said in an interview on Fox News. She said that staff are being retained to ensure that programs like IDEA, which receives appropriations from Congress, don’t “fall through the cracks.” But, when asked what IDEA stood for, McMahon said it was only her fifth day on the job.

“I’m not sure I can tell you exactly what it stands for, except that it’s the programs for disabled and needs,” she said.

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/03/12/as-education-department-slashes-nearly-half-its-staff-special-ed-worries-mount/31350/

Our latest "new low".

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1. "A program for disabled and needs." You fuckhead, McMahon. Did you mean "A program for PEOPLE with disabilities and

PEOPLE with special needs?"

Ignorant tool.

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2. Hey, what do you want...its only her 5th day on the job.

We are at rock bottom every day in the USA.