Military.com

The recent Department of Education layoffs that have diminished the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services are likely to exacerbate challenges that military families already face. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Workforce Acceleration & Recapitalization Initiative set out to address duplicative functions and “excessive bureaucracy” and introduce technological automation solutions for routine tasks. However, by restructuring the Department’s civilian workforce with abrupt reductions and no apparent public plans on how those residual programs will be maintained, critical classroom services, federal oversight and funding, and civil protections remain up in the air.