by kids1stadvocac | Oct 14, 2025 | Federal
USA Today Families and educators across the country were plunged into a state of uncertainty over the weekend after the federal Education Department laid off practically every staffer in the government’s special education division. Nearly the entire Office of...
by kids1stadvocac | Oct 14, 2025 | Federal
Mother Jones Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) received reduction-in-force notices, according to reporting from K-12 Drive. It was part of a scourge of layoffs. 460...
by kids1stadvocac | Oct 14, 2025 | Federal
NPR President Trump has talked repeatedly about wanting to return education to the states and that dismantling the Education Department is part of that plan. Eliminating these staff members does not, at this point, cut special education funding to states. But one...
