DoEd permanently fires Most Special Ed Staff

[angrychair]

The Mango Mussolini administration fires most of the DoEd Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Office staff, including all of the staff supporting IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) which is the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities.
These are billed as permanent cuts, not furloughs.

This administration has repeatedly stated that it cares a great deal about special education.

This is how they show that "great concern".

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/10/11/education-department-special-ed-office-layoffs-shutdown/86646104007/

[EdmondDantes_]

1. It's going to take a long time to properly rebuild things

[Skittles]

2. yes

and WHO is going to want to return to work for a government that can be upended every time repukes are in power?

[Ilsa]

3. How long before Special Education is completely

eliminated, at least at secondary level? IOW, be able to work within mainstream classrooms or fail out.

This is another example of Trump's sadism on that branch of his Dark Tetrad pathology.

[FBaggins]

19. That won't happen

Comparatively little of the funding comes from the federal government

[sakabatou]

4. Always remember cruelty is a feature of this admin

[Wednesdays]

8. Cruelty is a feature of the entire PARTY. nt

[dalton99a]

5. Because MAGA Jesus said: "Get rid of Special Ed, and get rid of Special Ed children"

[Silent Type]

6. At least for time because it appears grants to schools, etc., will continue. And there are talks of moving

Special Ed staff into HHS.

https://www.k12dive.com/news/special-education-OSEP-OSERS-federal-rifs-Government-shutdown/802662/

[angrychair]

11. They can't move them.

They just fired them. Plus the laws are specific to the Dept of Education, not HHS, that is also going through a massive way of firings.

Special Education and protections for children with disabilities belongs in DoEd, not HHS.

[Silent Type]

18. Not if Dept of Ed no longer exists except to disburse grants, and that will likely be moved too.

[AllyCat]

16. Talks of? As usual, no plans with these Nazis.

[Silent Type]

17. Probably a better place for it nowadays, even with Kennedy.

[marble falls]

20. HHS is a better place for Education?

[Silent Type]

21. United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare did well up to 1979. Yes, I believe we should return to that.

Wish we'd done it under a Dem, though.

[DBoon]

7. Lebensunwertes Leben

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_unworthy_of_life

[LoisB]

10. My first thought also.

[Johonny]

9. Showing that they really dont care about autism

[Kingofalldems]

12. Funny how the gatekeepers jump right in to defend Trump.

[AllyCat]

15. Yup.

[spanone]

13. HEARTLESS BASTARDS

[Lucky Luciano]

14. They didn't lie about caring about special ed.

They cared very much about taking a specific action to eradicate it. They never said they cared in a positive way.