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The U.S. Department of Education is cutting around 1,300 staffers from its workforce, the agency announced Tuesday.The layoffs will effectively cut the agency in half in an effort to meet President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon's goal of making the department more efficient and reducing the federal government's involvement in education matters like curriculum and school choice.