US Department of Education According to senior officials, President Donald Trump’s proposal to completely abolish the department is eliminating half of its workforce for regional office properties in major metropolitan areas, such as New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland.
“As part of the last mission of the Department of Education, the department today began to emphasize the emphasis on affecting about 50 percent of the department’s manpower, a statement said.
Since Tuesday evening, hundreds of employees will be eliminated in addition to accepting “shopping”, in addition to these people, in addition to these people. These measures will reduce the department’s 4,100 strong manpower by half, as the AFP reported.
About 1,300 staff members will receive notices that expire with a 90 -day notice period. On Wednesday, the affected employees will work from March 21 and transfer to the paid administrative leave. The affected employees will telecommus from Wednesday to March 21 “for safety reasons that can be protected by 2,183 employees who are” ending after the end of the workforce. ” The severins package will be based on the length of the service.
The reduction is following the dismissal of 63 probationary employees under the White House’s recent directive. Also, more than 300 staff members voluntarily accepted the separation privileges, up to 25,000, while about 260 260 postponed the resignation packages.
The department will also close several regional offices in San Francisco and New York, eventually strengthening operations in a single Washington, DC location, where it currently maintains three offices.
In addition, the agency’s representatives made it clear that the staff was actually related to the roofs, citing the previous information, uncontrollable “safety reasons” in connection with the closure of the temporary office. Internal communication, which CNN had access, instructed staff members to work from home by Thursday.
Since these decisions of deduction were announced on the workforce of the Department of Education, security personnel were locked a few minutes before the withdrawal of staff, at the headquarters of the department in Washington, DC, which was expected to resume on Thursday.
Meanwhile, senior officials assured that the Federal Student Aid would be affected, despite concerns about the ability to work effectively with such a significant reduction in the staff of the experts.
The current era of deductions is alienated in the federal agencies with a similar reduction, a part of Trump and Elon Musk’s department -led department for government to reduce the size of the federal government.
“The department’s performance, accountability, and the department’s department’s performance, is to ensure that resources are most important: students, parents and teachers,” said Linda McMemon, the secretary of education. He added, “I appreciate the work of dedicated government employees and their contribution to the department.
In addition, to deal with Trump’s shutdown threats, he added, “” Clearly, his guidance is to shut down the education department, which we know about we have to work with the Congress, you know, to perform this task. “
Earlier, CNN had reported that White House officials had drafted an executive order in which McMemon was directed to start the department.
A senior agency official said on Tuesday: “The president campaigned to bring the civil service and the federal government and the important thing to the states and bring enough reforms to bring the students and families to return the power. We are moving forward with a piece of considerable reforms today.”
Veteran employees of the department told CNN that even during high profile visits, they could not remember the closure of any previous office.
Several members of the Department of Education had previously expressed anxiety about large -scale uselessness and Trump’s expected executive order.
Unions representing education workers and teachers immediately criticized the deductions, highlighting concerns about the impact and impact of the workforce on millions of students serving by the agency.
“What is clear from the US Federation of Government Employees Local 252,” said Shiria Smith in the past weeks, with widespread firing, chaos and non -professionalism, is that this government has no respect for the thousands of workers who have dedicated their careers to their careers. “
“The real victims will be our weakest students, criticizing Trump and Musk’s federal government’s reorganization,” Becky Prangal, President of the National Education Association, said.
