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For the last few months, Laura Meckler from The Washington Post has been trying to understand

exactly what's happening at the Department of Education. The problem is that there are not that

many people left to tell her.

How often are you speaking to people inside the department?

Are they calling you?

Are you calling them?

I mean, there's a little bit of both.

You know, I have a group of people who I try to keep in touch with.

And, you know, some of whom were workers there at the start of the year and are no longer workers there.

Laura says things began to really go south back in March.

That's when Secretary of Education Linda McMahon issued this memo, which laid out an overhaul.

It repeated this one phrase, again and again, final mission.

This is our opportunity to perform one final, unforgettable public service to future generations of students, McMahon wrote.

I hope you will join me in ensuring that when our final mission is complete, we will all be able to say

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