Philadelphia Administrator Says Cuts To Department Of Education Create "Chaos" And "Peril"

CBS Philadelphia

March 13, 2025

The Department of Education is slashing nearly 50% of its workforce as part of the Trump Administration's efforts to dismantle the agency.

While the move aims to reduce federal oversight and shift control of education to the states, it has sparked growing concern over the potential impact on schools that serve students with special education needs.

"We're very nervous. It creates chaos. It creates peril. I do not know where my funding is going to come from next year, next month," Dr. Alicia Kennedy, the director of special services at Global Leadership Academy Charter School in West Philadelphia, said. "If we can't meet their needs, then that leaves in a place where, where is it coming from? How are we going to supplement what we lose from federal funding from the state level, from the budgeting?

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