Employees recently let go from the Department of Education amid Trump’s mass layoffs of federal workers warned that there is nobody left to oversee billions in funding and its special needs students across the U.S. who will pay the price.
“I'm more heartbroken for the students with disabilities than I am myself,” one employee told The Independent on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. The employee said that the office had already set up for federal money to be dispersed for special education.
