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The Trump administration is working on its promise to eliminate the United States Ministry of Education: Tuesday evening, the Department published a declaration saying that it would dismiss almost 50% of the department's workforce. Assigned staff will be on administrative leave from March 21, according to the announcement.

The declaration confirms that “all the divisions” within the agency will be struck by cuts, but also indicates that it will continue to deliver programs protected by law “, including the financing of the formula, student loans, Pell subsidies, financing of students with special needs and competitive subsidy”.

“Today's reduction reflects the commitment of the Ministry of Education towards efficiency, responsibility and the guarantee that resources are directed where they have the most: for students, parents and teachers,” said the United States Secretary for Education, Linda McMahon, in the press release. “I appreciate the work of dedicated officials and their contributions to the ministry. This is an important step towards the restoration of the size of the teaching system of the United States.”

According to the announcement, more than 1,300 positions will be reduced following this reduction in force. About 600 other employees have accepted voluntary resignations or have withdrawn in the past two months.

Local AFGE 252, a union which represents employees of the Department of Education, published a statement in which its president, Sheria Smith, said: “We will fight these draconian cuts and urge all Americans to get up and contact their members of the Congress to protect the vital work of the Ministry of Education, workers and our nation by rejecting these political games.”

A few minutes later, the local section of AFGE 252 told NPR that Smith had been dismissed, as well as the other five officers of the section of the section.

Earlier Tuesday, the employees of the department received an email advising them to leave all the offices of the department at 6:00 p.m. The staff were informed by the Ministry's Security Office, installations and logistics to plan to work at home on Wednesday. The employees of the department shared the email with NPR. We do not name them because they feared reprisals.

Department employees have spent the past few weeks anticipating scanning cuts by the Trump administration.

This Thursday, agency leaders are expected to put their “reorganization” plans to the American management and budget office (OMB) and the American Staff Management Office (OPM).

A guidance note of the OMB and the OPM sent at the end of February asked agency leaders to make “large -scale reductions of force (RIF)” by attrition and “by eliminating the positions which are not necessary”.

Already, at least 75 staff members of the Department of Education have been placed on paid administrative leave, according to a statement by local AFGE 252. This count does not include managers and supervisors. Many of these workers on paid leave attended a workshop for diversity, equity and inclusion that the ministry has offered for many years, especially during the first Trump administration.

The union also claims that at least 75 employees in the probationary department, which have been hired more recently and are legally easier to dismiss, have also been terminated.

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