"The U.S. Department of Education is cutting around 1,300 staffers from its workforce, the agency announced Tuesday," CNBC reports.

... "The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, a nonprofit that advocates for equal access to postsecondary education, is similarly interested in seeing which specific departments or programs may be affected by the cuts, though the organization is more skeptical of the Trump administration’s assurances."

"'Claiming that eliminating half the Department won’t affect its services — without any clear plan to redistribute the workload — is, at best, naïve and, at worst, deliberately misleading,' Beth Maglione, NASFAA interim president and CEO said in a statement. 'It also raises serious concerns about how billions of dollars in federal student aid will continue to be disbursed to students without interruption.'"

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Publication Date: 3/13/2025