Donald Trump to slash workforce at US education department

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Trump’s administration has reduced almost half of the workforce of the US Education Department, a step towards the president’s promise to eliminate the agency.

According to the Department of Education, it is on Tuesday on Tuesday, as it stated that it will make more than 1,300 employees.

This step comes as President Donald Trump He goes that he ordered the executive order that the department would be closed, although it will be necessary to completely eliminate the Act of the Congress.

Last week, Fox News told Fox News, he thought that Trump was “certainly intends to sign the executive order, which will lead to the closure of the board.

The department has long been a target of conservative, claiming that education should be completely under the control of individual states, which defines educational programs and regulates the daily management of the country’s public, priority and secondary education system.

Program 2025, The draft conservative presidency of the “Relaxing Heritage” Foundation has called on the elimination of the department.

Trump said he wanted to “drive schools” and “Makmahon” to “put him out of business”.

“Today’s reduction in force reflects the Department of Education for Efficiency, Accountability and These Resources, for students, parents and teachers,” McMahon said on Tuesday. He moved a “significant step towards restoring the size of the United States Education System.”

The department will also take about 2,183 employees from the employees of 4,133. The cuts include 572 employees who have voluntary resigned, including through the Federal Buy of Trump Administration. The injured employees will be sent to administrative leave since March 21.

Teachers have warned that low-income families would be the hardest hit the department’s dissolution.

The American Federation of Teachers said that the decision would affect 90 percent of US children who participate in the state or public and schools. The reduction of the workforce “federal education programs throw chaos throughout the country,” said AFT President Randy Wingart.

“Ten million students who rely on financial assistance to go to college or trade will remain busy. The states and districts will have to navigate the financial crises without federal support, damaging millions of students with disabilities and poverty students, “he added.

The Education Department monitors student loans for the university, as well as special higher education grants for low-income students, known as Pell grants. It also gives money to individual school districts, the main and secondary education of the foundation for low-income and special needs for children.

The agency says that it will still “present all the statutory programs under the agency, including the financing of the resolution, student loans, catastrophic grants.”