Federal employee layoffs begin at Education Department

[j-mac]

Department of Education staff will receive "reduction in force" notices Tuesday before nearly half of the department's workforce is terminated, Fox News Digital has learned.

Earlier Tuesday, a memo was sent to all Education Department employees informing them that Department of Education offices will be closed Tuesday evening through Wednesday due to "security reasons." Employees were instructed to leave the offices by 6 p.m. ET Tuesday.

Nearly half of Department of Education staff will be eliminated imminently

Department of Education staff will receive “reduction in force" notices Tuesday, and nearly half of the staff will be terminated, Fox News Digital has learned.

www.foxnews.com

Here we go....Let the rending, and gnashing of teeth begin....

 

[Darkwind]

A shame that it will take until next year before we reap the benefit of that. Well, whats one more grade getting lost in the shuffle, eh?

 

[Winco]

I think this is GREAT.

The number is about 2,000......so I read.

"I want to close up Department of Education, move education back to the states," Trump said in August 2024, while noting left-wing states such as California could struggle if he does eliminate the Department of Education. "Of the 50 (states), I would bet that 35 would do great. And 15 of them, or, you know, 20 of them, will be as good as Norway. You know, Norway is considered great."

I wonder which 15 or 20 States trump thinks "will be as good as Norway."

Let me guess.......trump is thinking of the Very Red States that currently rank near the bottom of the 50 States.

 

[Rambunctious]

The 2nd worse president in US history invented the federal dept. of education... that was Jimmy Carter... it was a total failure and now the USA ranks last in many subjects.... let the states run the education of their students... when the feds do it politics get smeared all over the curriculum....

 

[Zincwarrior]

Cool. Who us going to handle servicing student loans and the financial aid to the states?

 

[Winco]

 

[j-mac]

The 2nd worse president in US history invented the federal dept. of education... that was Jimmy Carter... it was a total failure and now the USA ranks last in many subjects.... let the states run the education of their students... when the feds do it politics get smeared all over the curriculum....

Exactly right.

 

[Rambunctious]

Cool. Who us going to handle servicing student loans and the financial aid to the states?

The tax dollars for education will be collected by the states... just like before the dept. of education was created...

 

[Zincwarrior]

The tax dollars for education will be collected by the states... just like before the dept. of education was created...

So...no one? These are Federal dollars.

 

[j-mac]

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But of course, because academics never met a bureaucrat they didn’t like

 

[otto105]

Department of Education staff will receive "reduction in force" notices Tuesday before nearly half of the department's workforce is terminated, Fox News Digital has learned.

Earlier Tuesday, a memo was sent to all Education Department employees informing them that Department of Education offices will be closed Tuesday evening through Wednesday due to "security reasons." Employees were instructed to leave the offices by 6 p.m. ET Tuesday.

Nearly half of Department of Education staff will be eliminated imminently

Department of Education staff will receive “reduction in force" notices Tuesday, and nearly half of the staff will be terminated, Fox News Digital has learned.

www.foxnews.com

Here we go....Let the rending, and gnashing of teeth begin....

At rural red state schools everywhere.

 

[j-mac]

At rural red state schools everywhere.

Take a look at the most recent heat map. Nearly the whole country is red.

 

[Rambunctious]

So...no one? These are Federal dollars.

No the feds will end the practice of collecting education taxes and the states will take over... notice you don't see governors screaming about thus?.... right now the states collect the tax send it to DC and get a little back... that's silly and wasteful.... don't you think?...

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I think this is GREAT.

The number is about 2,000......so I read.

"I want to close up Department of Education, move education back to the states," Trump said in August 2024, while noting left-wing states such as California could struggle if he does eliminate the Department of Education. "Of the 50 (states), I would bet that 35 would do great. And 15 of them, or, you know, 20 of them, will be as good as Norway. You know, Norway is considered great."

I wonder which 15 or 20 States trump thinks "will be as good as Norway."

Let me guess.......trump is thinking of the Very Red States that currently rank near the bottom of the 50 States.



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interesting
the most diverse states do the worse
and the least diverse states do the best

 

[Rambunctious]

I think a lot of state representatives left and right will like the end of the Dept. of education.... whether they admit it or not... I know many teachers will approve...

 

[Zincwarrior]

No the feds will end the practice of collecting education taxes and the states will take over... notice you don't see governors screaming about thus?.... right now the states collect the tax send it to DC and get a little back... that's silly and wasteful.... don't you think?...

There are no Federal "education taxes." What planet are you on?

 

[Zincwarrior]

interesting
the most diverse states do the worse
and the least diverse states do the best

Southern states do the worst.

 

[Rambunctious]

There are no Federal "education taxes." What planet are you on?

The states send the money to DC after its collected and they get a little back... prove that wrong...

 

[Rambunctious]

Southern states do the worst.

Maybe because the Dept. of education are libs... another reason to can the place....

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

When a spending bill is not passed, they send all of the "non-essential employees" home.
They get a free paid vacation.
If an employee is "non-essential" what work are they doing?