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Coverage dated October 11, 2025 to October 12, 2025

Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement

Headline from WTOP Washington DC

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass…

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17 articles, oldest first.

  1. Washington Examiner

    Education Department guts special ed office as part of shutdown layoffs (opens Washington Examiner)

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    An Education Department spokesperson confirmed Friday that the agency would be included in the reduction in force.

  2. WTOP Washington DC

    Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement (opens WTOP Washington DC)

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass…

  3. NBC4 Washington

    Education Department layoffs hit special education, after-school programming (opens NBC4 Washington)

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    NBC4 Washington's feed description

    The cuts play into Trump’s broader plan to shut down the Education Department and parcel its operations to other agencies.

  4. The Guardian

    Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report (opens The Guardian)

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    Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says worker

  5. Black Enterprise

    Gutting The Core: Special Education Office Axed As Federal Layoffs Hit The DOE (opens Black Enterprise)

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    As the government shutdown continues, the Education Department has begun a first wave of layoffs, slashing its Office of Special Ed.

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