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The Trump administration fired 466 Education Department employees Friday, cutting the workforce by nearly a fifth during the ongoing federal shutdown.

Nearly all staff implementing federal special education law were terminated, along with workers overseeing civil rights enforcement, Title I funding, and after-school programs.

The department has shrunk from 4,100 employees when Trump took office to fewer than 2,000, part of his plan to dismantle the agency.

WASHINGTON — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in a

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