"The Trump administration’s steep workforce cuts at the Education Department include hundreds of attorneys, student aid workers and civil rights office staff, according to agency documents obtained by POLITICO," reports POLITICO.

..."Education Department officials insisted that the department’s reductions in force are targeted at duplicative work inside the agency and that job cuts will not affect the work of the department’s Federal Student Aid office, its civil rights investigations or how the department distributes federal funding for low-income and disabled students.

'Our primary concern is the lack of transparency about which functional areas are being cut, why specific departments have been selected for dismantling, and how the transition will be managed without disruption to students or the nation’s institutions of higher education,' Beth Maglione, the interim president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said in a statement Wednesday."

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Publication Date: 3/12/2025