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Protesters will honk their horns on Independence Avenue to oppose mass layoffs at the Department of Education and potential agency closure.
WASHINGTON — Independence Avenue Southwest might get a little loud Friday morning, when people take to the roads for a Honk-a-Thon outside the Department of Education to protest mass layoffs and the Trump administration's plans to scrap the agency.
More than 1,300 federal Department of Education employees were fired on Tuesday — half of its workforce. Its just the first of many cuts Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says she plans to make in the directive to shutter the agency President Donald Trump has charged her with.
From 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., a collection of education advocacy groups will honk their cars while passing between 4th and 6th streets SW on Independence Avenue, near the Lyndon B. Johnson Building in Southwest D.C. where the Department of Education is housed. Then, from 9a.m. to 10 a.m., the groups will rally outside the building at 400 Maryland Ave. SW.
In addition to fired workers, education advocates, teachers, students and parents are coming out to support the Department. This rally will include representatives from the National Education Association, the American Federation of Government Employees National, the American Federation of Teachers, Voters of Tomorrow, MomsRising, the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, Color of Change, the National Parents Union, All4Ed, Disability Power and Pride, and Aquí: The Accountability Movement.
This rally is one day after students, parents and teachers rallied on Capitol Hill against the cuts to the agency at the Recess at the Capitol protest during a D.C. Public Schools day off Thursday.
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