When the Trump administration gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development, Ethan Taylor knew the writing was on the wall for his USAID-funded job at the Department of the Interior. So he took the deferred resignation offered by the Department of Government Efficiency and ended his 24 years in the federal government rather than wait for a layoff to come.

Now Taylor is gearing up to teach two sections of Spanish I and three sections of Spanish IV starting later this month as a conditional teacher at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg.

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