A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s stud

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

The number was made public Friday from the Justice Department, after the White House delivered on its threat of a fresh wave of firings

A round of Trump layoffs hit all employees in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, except a small number of top officials.

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to know.

The Trump administration said the grant was being canceled because it reflected the “prior administration’s priorities and policy preferences,” Lindsey M. Burke, a US Education Department official, wrote in a letter that referenced Rhode Island’s efforts to hire teachers from “racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse backgrounds.”