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Some borrowers have been receiving notices in recent weeks that read: "You are now eligible to have some or all of your federal student loan(s) discharged because you have reached the necessary number of payments under your Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan." The IBR plan, first introduced in 2007, offers debt cancellation after 20 or 25 years of repayment, depending on the age of the loans. Nearly 2 million borrowers were enrolled in this program as of the second quarter, according to Federal Student Aid figures.

Bay Area universities lost more than $2 million in funds after the Trump administration announced it was rerouting money meant for minority-serving institutions to charter schools and other educational programs, an analysis by Bay Area News Group has revealed. In September, the Department of Education announced it was ending $350 million in discretionary funding for several minority-serving grant programs, alleging the programs were racially discriminatory because qualifying schools must maintain a percentage of minority students in their total student enrollment.

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, has threatened the layoffs for weeks, citing the government shutdown. Vought wrote on social media Friday that his promised reduction in force had begun. A department spokesperson then confirmed in an email to Inside Higher Ed that "ED employees will be impacted by the RIF." The spokesperson did not clarify how many employees will be affected or in which offices.

To prepare our next generation of American workers, the Trump Administration is taking decisive action to streamline unnecessary bureaucracy and advance the skills needed to fill jobs of the future,

The poll comes as Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders expanding school choice options, encouraging the use of artificial intelligence in schools and returning educational control to the states by dismantling the Department of Education. But despite the Trump administration's insistence on dismantling the department, the majority of surveyed Americans opposed eliminating the department and believe it would have a negative impact on public education.

Jobs involving partisan or nonpartisan voter registration, voter assistance at a polling place or through a voter hotline, or serving as a poll worker—whether this takes place on or off campus—involve political activity because these activities support the process of voting which is a quintessential political activity whereby voters formally support partisan or nonpartisan political candidates by casting ballots.

"They jumped the gun. They picked the wrong day. It's a snafu," said former Queens Councilman Daneek Miller, a practicing Muslim.

Sanon emphasized that the Department is committed to making 'all education decision-making' local by 'returning education to States and Tribes.'

The 47-year-old off-duty employee of the NYC Department of Education, Yan Chen, was arrested on multiple charges, including assault and child endangerment.