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Unofficial resistance group fighting to protect the U.S. Department of Education.

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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
washingtonpost.com
Services cut. Staff laid off. New Trump cuts hit schools in 11 states, D.C.
Halfway through the academic year, the administration canceled $168 million in community schools grants.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Fuck ICE, and if you support them, fuck you, too.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This kind of search is extremely rare and a dangerous precedent. Hannah Natanson is a great reporter, ethical and meticulous, and she should not have been subjected to this.
washingtonpost.com
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Good for them, and f*ck ICE.
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Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights @clccivilrights.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
📣 LAWSUIT FILED – This week, ACT Now Illinois filed a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to discontinue two federal Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) grants that support schools & families across IL. 🔗Full press release: www.clccrul.org/press/act-no...
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 30/12/2025
A Chicago nonprofit, in conjunction with the American Federation of Teachers, is suing the U.S. Department of Education over funding cuts to a program that has long provided wraparound services to students in high-poverty and rural areas.
trib.al
Chicago nonprofit sues Department of Education over alleged ‘unlawful’ grant program cuts
A Chicago nonprofit, in conjunction with the American Federation of Teachers, is suing the U.S. Department of Education over funding cuts to a program that has long provided wraparound services to …
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 30/12/2025
Two lawsuits challenge the Trump administration's decision to pull a grant providing support for after-school programs, food pantries and mental health services in Illinois schools.
chicago.suntimes.com
Lawsuits challenge Trump administration’s termination of grants for Illinois schools
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Today we filed a lawsuit against the Dept of Ed's abrupt & unlawful decision to stop millions of $$ in funding 4 Full-Service Community Schools in the middle of approved, multi-year projects-projects that give students tutoring and after school & health care at school. www.aft.org/press-releas...
aft.org
AFT and Chicago Nonprofit Organization Sue U.S. Department of Education for Unlawful Public Education Funding Cuts
WASHINGTON — The AFT and the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC) filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s abrupt and unlawful decision to terminate millions of dollar...
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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Lots of discussion about whether shifting education programs from US Department of Education to other federal agencies is a good idea (narrator: it isn't). Our team and Sligo Law Group looked at whether it's even legal to do so. TL;DR: It likely isn't. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
DEEP DIVE: Beyond “The Maximum Extent Permitted By Law”
Beyond “The Maximum Extent Permitted By Law” Legal Analysis of the U.S. Department of Education’s Transfers of Programs to Other Federal Agencies December 4, 2025 President Trump issued an executiv...
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 26/11/2025
A coalition suing to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education expanded its lawsuit Tuesday to include objections to recent interagency agreements to shift the department’s responsibilities to other Cabinet-level agencies. From @statesnewsroom.com
penncapital-star.com
Suit to block Education Department closure expanded amid agency transfers plans • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
A coalition suing to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education expanded its lawsuit to include objections to recent interagency agreements to shift the depar...
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Release the Epstein files.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The Department of Education was created by Congress and can only be dismantled by Congress.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Fun fact: The Phoenix Declaration was also the name of a statement issued by an LGBT-affirming clergy group in Arizona in 2003 that called on churches to fully welcome LGBTQ people and declared homosexuality neither a sin nor a choice and urged an end to discrimination. Probably different than this.
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OPB @opb.org · 10/11/2025
The U.S. Department of Education has found that students who take part in the College Access Migrant Program are far more likely to stay in school. But the Trump administration questions the effectiveness of such programs and calls them "extremely costly."
opb.org
College program for migrant students loses federal funding
The College Access Migrant Program helped create pathways for students across the Northwest to enroll at higher education institutions.
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Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Don’t get it twisted: the people working *in* the department of education are suffering under the Trump administration’s leadership. Those running the U.S. Department of Education right now are incompetent and do not care about our nation’s students AT ALL.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Exactly.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Maybe it’s just us, but it’s really starting to seem like this administration does not care about the rule of law.
cnn.com
Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says | CNN Politics
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment rights of some agency employees when it sent out-of-office messages on their behalf that blamed Democrats for...
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Hang in there, feds.
sligolawgroup.com
Resources for Furloughed Federal Employees — Sligo Law Group, PLLC
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A new Trump admin rule could make employees of non-profits that work on immigration, DEI, or trans issues ineligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Once again, Trump is specifically punishing employees at organizations that he ideologically opposes.
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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Mornin' ☕
Meme with a list reading - "Big Scary Radical Left Agenda - Equality / Education / Healthcare / Voting Rights / Clean Air & Water / Reproductive Freedom / Love Wins...Terrifying, Huh?
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We’ve been hearing the rumors since the day the layoffs were announced, but ED has now confirmed. Still far from a done deal though.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
ICYMI: Declaration from Jacqueline Clay on the exact numbers of RIFd employees.
storage.courtlistener.com
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“There’s something opportunistic about what we’re watching right now,” says ED official from first Trump administration, astutely noting the obvious.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Court Blocks Shutdown Layoffs, But Experts Say Education Department Programs Still in Danger www.the74million.org/article/cour...
the74million.org
Court Blocks Shutdown Layoffs, But Experts Say Ed Dept. Programs Still in Danger
The judge said it’s ‘far from normal’ for an administration to fire staff ‘as a way to punish the opposing political party.’
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
nytimes.com
White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Check out this new law firm powered by former Department of Education folks ready to fight back against the administration to help schools, educational agencies, and nonprofit organizations! Introducing Sligo Law Group www.sligolawgroup.com/launch-annou...
sligolawgroup.com
Press Release: Former Department of Education Attorneys Launch Sligo Law Group — Sligo Law Group, PLLC
August 13, 2025: Former Department of Education attorneys launch Sligo Law Group, a boutique federal education law firm, to support elementary, secondary, adult, career and technical, and postsecondar...
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Education Week @edweek.org · 14/10/2025
Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs: The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.
edweek.org
Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs
The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Estimating approximately 12 people left in all of OESE, 5 in OSERS.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Yes, all of OESE except the directors, the remainder of OCO, and now folks in OCR as well.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Today’s update: More folks are receiving RIF notices as the administration continues its rapid dismantling of the Department of Education.
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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
These are not budget cuts. This isn’t about money; this is an attempt to undermine congressional intent and dismantle the Department by making it incapable of carrying out its statutory duties.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Please call (don’t email) your representatives, and keep calling every day until this is stopped.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We’ve now heard that most of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at ED is being let go as well. The harm caused to students if these layoffs are allowed to proceed cannot be overstated. ED cannot carry out its statutorily required duties without these offices.
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Princess Moss @neapresident.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
When hundreds of Department of Education employees are suddenly terminated, students bear the brunt of the consequences. Special education oversight. Grants to high-need schools. Protection of civil rights. Gone. This administration is destroying our education system from the inside out.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
We are hearing that almost all of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) has been let go. This is devastating news for both the employees, who are being treated as nothing more than political pawns, and for K–12 education in this country—both deserve better.
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Jessica Blake @jessicablake.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Here's the latest from @insidehighered.com on the second round of layoffs at the Department of Education:
insidehighered.com
Trump Fires More Education Dept. Employees
The Trump administration threatened to lay off federal workers because of the government shutdown. An unspecified number of employees got pink slips Friday.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 10/10/2025
The U.S. Department of Education said on Friday it would lay employees off as workforce cut notices began to go out on the tenth day of the federal government shutdown.
reut.rs
US Education Department to lay off employees, agency says
The U.S. Department of Education said on Friday it would lay employees off as workforce cut notices began to go out on the tenth day of the federal government shutdown.
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 13/08/2025
Three fired Education Department lawyers are the latest to launch a law firm to represent entities affected by President Trump’s wide-ranging changes to government policies.
bit.ly
Education Lawyers Fired by Trump Start Firm in ‘Chaotic’ Stretch
Three fired Education Department lawyers are the latest to launch a law firm to represent entities affected by President Trump’s wide-ranging changes to government policies.
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scul diva ❌👑 @sculdiva.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"When you fire the professionals, the statisticians, the scientists that can analyze the data, that allows you to make up whatever facts you want,” Ms. Smith said. @altdepted.bsky.social @alt-deptofed.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
FEMA Ends Wasteful, Politicized Grant Program, Returning Agency to Core Mission of Helping Americans Recovering from Natural Disasters
Release Date: April 4, 2025
Under Secretary Noem, DHS is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse
WASHINGTON - FEMA is ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and canceling all BRIC applications from Fiscal Years 2020-2023. If grant funds have not been distributed to states, tribes, territories and local communities, funds will be immediately returned either to the Disaster Relief Fund or the U.S. Treasury.
Statement Attributable to a FEMA Spokesperson:
"The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters. Under Secretary Noem's leadership, we are committed to ensuring that Americans in crisis can get the help and resources they need."
Approximately $882 million of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year. The 2021 law made $1 billion available for BRIC over five years, $133 million to date has been provided for about 450 applications. FEMA estimates more than $3.6 billion will remain in the Disaster Relief Fund to assist with disaster response and recovery for communities and survivors.
Ending this program will help ensure that grant funding aligns with the President's Executive Orders and Secretary Noem's direction and best support states and local communities in disaster planning, response and recovery.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
FAFO - stupid Magats. Also, the area is known as 'Flash Flood Alley'. As Forrest Gump said, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
State by state analysis
learningpolicyinstitute.org
States Face Uncertainty as an Estimated $4.8 Billion in K–12 Funding Remains Unreleased: Here’s the Fiscal Impact by State
States face uncertainty as $4.8 billion in K–12 federal funding remains unreleased. If the U.S. Department of Education doesn’t distribute these funds by July 1, state educational agencies will need p...
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And finally, the law of human decency: These funds go to support some of the neediest students in our country. If funding is withheld, states and districts may have to cut programs intended to help these students. Hurting kids like this is pure evil.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Administrative Procedure Act: Funds may not be unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Appropriations law: Prohibits the withholding or delaying of funds appropriated by Congress.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Impoundment Control Act of 1974: Withholding funds without following these procedures is illegal impoundment.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The executive branch is refusing to distribute funding that was appropriated by Congress to be distributed in accordance with formulas laid out in statute. This violates, as they say in the legal world, a fuckton of laws.
edweek.org
Trump Tells States He's Holding Back $6.8 Billion for Schools
Schools nationwide won't see funding earmarked for English learners, migrant students, professional development, and more.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What happened to all the employees and contracts in place to handle this work? Oh that's right...
brookings.edu
The US Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics | Brookings
Federal education data releases have slowed dramatically, with major gaps in the 2024 Digest and Condition of Education report.
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Alt Department of Education @altdepted.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Yup.
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