The layoffs would cut the agency’s workforce by nearly a fifth and leave it reduced to less than half its size when Trump took office

This story is by Collin Binkley.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 areas from special education to civil rights enforcement to after-school programs.

The Trump administration started laying off 466 Education Department staffers on Friday amid mass firings across the government meant to pressure Democratic lawmakers over the federal shutdown . The layoffs would cut the agency’s workforce by nearly a fifth and leave it reduced to less than half its size

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