The department will be closed for the day, and “reduction in force” notices are expected to go out and affect nearly half the agency’s employees, the agency wrote in a press release.
Employees were told to leave the department’s Washington, D.C., headquarters by 6 p.m. on Tuesday ahead of the layoffs and one-day building closure. There are roughly 4,200 Education Department employees nationwide.
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“Today, we are beginning the process to cut the total number of staff at the Department of Education roughly in half via a reduction in force,” an Education Department official said on a call with reporters.
Of 4,133 total staff the Trump administration inherited, 259 accepted the deferred “fork in the road” resignations, 313 accepted separation payment of $25,000, 63 probationary…
