"On March 11, President Donald Trump’s administration announced plans to cut half of the Department of Education’s workforce starting Friday, fulfilling parts of a long-held conservative mission to weaken the agency. More than 1,300 positions will be eliminated, according to the announcement, and around 600 more employees accepted voluntary resignations or retired over the last two months," KQED reports.

... "Beth Maglione, the interim president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, called the idea that services will not be interrupted 'at best, naive and, at worst, deliberately misleading.'"

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Publication Date: 3/19/2025