Department of Education Staffers Offered Buyouts of $25,000

The U.S. Department of Education has offered most of its employees a buyout offer to leave their posts by the end of this month. The agency confirmed to The Epoch Times that on Feb. 28, it sent an email to its staff offering employees up to “a $25,000 Separation Incentive Payment.” “The offer expires at 11:50 p.m. (Eastern time) Monday.” No additional information regarding the offer was provided. This latest cost-saving effort follows the cancellation of $900 million in contracts related to the department’s Education Sciences agency and $101 million in contracts linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion training in education. Those planned reductions were verified last month....