This is a developing story.
The Department of Education has 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.
This comes after the college access program known as TRIO was let go, according to Rachel Gittleman, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252.
While The Educator’s Room has received word that all but two managers have been let go from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the agency has not confirmed its number.
The firings, which the union has challenged in court on Oct. 1, “double down on the harm to K-12 students and schools across the country,”
In a Friday court filing, the Justice Department stated that more than 460 Education Department employees had been laid off, reducing the agency’s workforce by roughly a fifth, which was already minimal.
