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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 16h

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 17h

These are not budget cuts. This isn’t about money; this is an attempt to undermine congressional intent and dismantle the Department by making it incapable of carrying out its statutory duties.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 17h

Please call (don’t email) your representatives, and keep calling every day until this is stopped.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 17h

We’ve now heard that most of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at ED is being let go as well. The harm caused to students if these layoffs are allowed to proceed cannot be overstated. ED cannot carry out its statutorily required duties without these offices.

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Becky Pringle @neapresident.bsky.social · 1d

When hundreds of Department of Education employees are suddenly terminated, students bear the brunt of the consequences.

Special education oversight. Grants to high-need schools. Protection of civil rights.

Gone.

This administration is destroying our education system from the inside out.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 1d

We are hearing that almost all of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) has been let go. This is devastating news for both the employees, who are being treated as nothing more than political pawns, and for K–12 education in this country—both deserve better.

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Jessica Blake @jessicablake.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the latest from @insidehighered.com on the second round of layoffs at the Department of Education:

Trump Fires More Education Dept. Employees

The Trump administration threatened to lay off federal workers because of the government shutdown. An unspecified number of employees got pink slips Friday.

www.insidehighered.com

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 1d

The U.S. Department of Education said on Friday it would lay employees off as workforce cut notices began to go out on the tenth day of the federal government shutdown.

US Education Department to lay off employees, agency says

The U.S. Department of Education said on Friday it would lay employees off as workforce cut notices began to go out on the tenth day of the federal government shutdown.

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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · Aug 13

Three fired Education Department lawyers are the latest to launch a law firm to represent entities affected by President Trump’s wide-ranging changes to government policies.

Education Lawyers Fired by Trump Start Firm in ‘Chaotic’ Stretch

Three fired Education Department lawyers are the latest to launch a law firm to represent entities affected by President Trump’s wide-ranging changes to government policies.

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scul diva ❌👑 @sculdiva.bsky.social · Aug 9

"When you fire the professionals, the statisticians, the scientists that can analyze the data, that allows you to make up whatever facts you want,” Ms. Smith said. @altdepted.bsky.social @alt-deptofed.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · Aug 9

"The data provides a variety of detailed information on every college, including faculty-to-student ratios, the cost of tuition and the average amount of financial aid. “The goal is to help potential students make better decisions,” Dr. Kelchen said."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

Trump Wants Admissions Data on Grades and Race, but Who Will Collect It?

www.nytimes.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · Jul 6

While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.

FEMA Ends Wasteful, Politicized Grant Program, Returning Agency to Core Mission of Helping Americans Recovering from Natural Disasters
Release Date: April 4, 2025
Under Secretary Noem, DHS is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse
WASHINGTON - FEMA is ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and canceling all BRIC applications from Fiscal Years 2020-2023. If grant funds have not been distributed to states, tribes, territories and local communities, funds will be immediately returned either to the Disaster Relief Fund or the U.S. Treasury.
Statement Attributable to a FEMA Spokesperson:
"The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters. Under Secretary Noem's leadership, we are committed to ensuring that Americans in crisis can get the help and resources they need."
Approximately $882 million of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year. The 2021 law made $1 billion available for BRIC over five years, $133 million to date has been provided for about 450 applications. FEMA estimates more than $3.6 billion will remain in the Disaster Relief Fund to assist with disaster response and recovery for communities and survivors.
Ending this program will help ensure that grant funding aligns with the President's Executive Orders and Secretary Noem's direction and best support states and local communities in disaster planning, response and recovery.

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · Jul 6

FAFO - stupid Magats. Also, the area is known as 'Flash Flood Alley'. As Forrest Gump said, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jul 1

State by state analysis

States Face Uncertainty as an Estimated $4.8 Billion in K–12 Funding Remains Unreleased: Here’s the Fiscal Impact by State

States face uncertainty as $4.8 billion in K–12 federal funding remains unreleased. If the U.S. Department of Education doesn’t distribute these funds by July 1, state educational agencies will need p...

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jul 1

And finally, the law of human decency: These funds go to support some of the neediest students in our country. If funding is withheld, states and districts may have to cut programs intended to help these students. Hurting kids like this is pure evil.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jul 1

Administrative Procedure Act: Funds may not be unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jul 1

Appropriations law: Prohibits the withholding or delaying of funds appropriated by Congress.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jul 1

Impoundment Control Act of 1974: Withholding funds without following these procedures is illegal impoundment.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jul 1

The executive branch is refusing to distribute funding that was appropriated by Congress to be distributed in accordance with formulas laid out in statute. This violates, as they say in the legal world, a fuckton of laws.

Trump Tells States He's Holding Back $6.8 Billion for Schools

Schools nationwide won't see funding earmarked for English learners, migrant students, professional development, and more.

www.edweek.org

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jun 26

What happened to all the employees and contracts in place to handle this work? Oh that's right...

The US Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics | Brookings

Federal education data releases have slowed dramatically, with major gaps in the 2024 Digest and Condition of Education report.

www.brookings.edu

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yup.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Jun 26

Oh

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · May 1

It’s not the guns it’s a mental health issue they said

Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health

Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

www.npr.org

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · May 2

School shootings aren’t a gun issue; they’re a mental health issue. Here’s why we’re cutting $1 billion in funding for student mental health.

by Donald Trump and Elon Musk

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · May 3

Charter schools are public schools. Allowing a public school to teach a particular religion as truth means the end of the separation between church and state.

Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma

The justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs. But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test.

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 1

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · Apr 23

For all you law nerds, here's how to sign up to listen to Friday's hearing in the attorneys general lawsuit against the Department of Education: forms.mad.uscourts.gov/seating-sign...

Request for Courtroom Seating/Audio Access

forms.mad.uscourts.gov

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