Department Of Education Makes Major Cuts To Staff

The Department of Education has eliminated nearly half of its employees, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Of the 4,133 department employees, 1,315 employees were informed of their elimination through reduction in force at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, a senior department official told the DCNF. Previously, 259 were cut as part of the deferred resignation program, 313 accepted voluntary separation incentive payments on $25,000 and an additional 63 probationary employees were terminated in February, leaving 2,183 employees remaining.

The layoffs were part of the Trump administration’s larger effort to eliminate government waste and improve education in the country. The cuts will not affect the department’s function, the official said, but they will begin the process of allowing more education oversight to occur at the state level.