{"id":34709,"date":"2025-02-28T23:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/us-education-department-offers-buyout-that-employees-call-beyond-misleading\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T23:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:35:59","slug":"us-education-department-offers-buyout-that-employees-call-beyond-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/us-education-department-offers-buyout-that-employees-call-beyond-misleading\/","title":{"rendered":"US education department offers buyout that employees call \u2018beyond misleading\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Email offers up to $25,000 but employees note severance and unused leave compensation would add up to more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1ja835wd\">Download our free app to get trusted reporting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US Department of Education sent an email to employees department-wide on Friday offering up to $25,000 to voluntarily resign or retire, or take severance, whichever is less.<\/p>\n<p>The email, obtained by the Guardian, states \u201cthis is a one-time offer in advance of a very significant Reduction In Force for the US Department of Education\u201d and gives employees until the end of day Monday to accept.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/28\/department-of-education-buyout-email\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email offers up to $25,000 but employees note severance and unused leave compensation would add up to more Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting. The US Department of Education sent an email to employees department-wide on Friday offering up to $25,000 to voluntarily resign &#8230; <a title=\"US education department offers buyout that employees call \u2018beyond misleading\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/us-education-department-offers-buyout-that-employees-call-beyond-misleading\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US education department offers buyout that employees call \u2018beyond misleading\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}