A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in areas from special education to civil rights enforcement to after-school programs. The Trump administration started laying off 466 Education Department staffers on Friday amid mass firings across the government meant to pressure Democratic lawmakers over the federal shutdown. The layoffs would cut the agency’s workforce by nearly a fifth and leave it reduced to less than half its size when President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/syndication/associatedpress/education-department-layoffs-hit-offices-that-oversee-special-education-and-civil-rights-enforcement/616-adf9a265-d424-42e9-9dfd-52080a3e98cb