Teachers unions are “spitting mad” about President Donald Trump cutting the Department of Education’s workforce and the possibility of an executive order further dismantling the 45-year-old agency.
Trump will sign an executive order aimed at dismantling the agency Thursday, the White House confirmed to The Daily Signal. The order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the agency’s closure, while continuing to ensure that some services, programs, and benefits continue.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said staffing cuts at the Department of Education on March 11 were an “evisceration by a thousand cuts.” The cuts reduced the workforce by roughly half—from 4,133 to about 2,200.
“It’s a disaster symbolically as much as a disaster in reality,” she said on MSNBC.
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