At the Monday meeting, it was said that the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge), a unit in the Trump administration Ruled by Elon Muskplans to cancel most IES contracts. Two employees shared screenshots of emails calling them at this meeting.
The employees described a gloomy mood, with some struggling with tears and others raised questions about the future of IES.
One of the employees who talked to NPR said that all contracts they control were terminated. “So what does this mean to our jobs?”
Another employee was skeptical of the idea that these abbreviations would lead to more efficiency. “If they do this to save state money, they lose millions today. All the money we have spent works on these products down in the sewer. “
NPR reached for the Ministry of Education and the White House for comment. The White House did not answer. A spokesman for the education department replied by sharing a link to a Monday evening publication of X Account for Dogi.
The publication states: “The Ministry of Education terminated 89 contracts worth $ 881 million” and that “one contractor was paid 1.5 mm for” Match and clerical operations “at a postal center.”
But a third source with extensive knowledge of many of these canceled education contracts that would not speak publicly out of fear of retribution, told the NPR that a closed program was already underway in classrooms – to study ways to help students in students in The whole country to deal with the basis that they are justified, they are justified that they have founded that they have founded that they have founded, they are justified for the grounds that they have founded, they are justified for grounds that They have founded, they are justified for grounds, they are justified for grounds, they are justified for the grounds that they have founded them, they are justified for the basis of them – lost in mathematics.
According to this source, students in many states have already worked with high quality, adaptive digital instruments. Now, with the cancellation of this contract, the study will be interrupted and training tools can soon be removed from classrooms.
The canceled contracts also include research and data collection on a number of issues, including private schools, home schools and career programs and technical education.
“This is decimation,” the source told NPR, “Destroying Knowledge of what works for children.”
“It’s shocking, it’s pointless,” said Thomas Weco, a former NPS commissioner, citing an important research work.
He added that the creation of IES was “an attempt to make our understanding of scientific education with other fields of knowledge such as medicine.”
If contracts linked to IES and NCES have indeed been terminated and its research has become inaccessible online for many decades for many decades about the state of education in the United States, it can become difficult to access. It is unclear what these terminations of the contract for future data collection would mean.
According to the employees with whom NPR talks, the national assessment of educational progress (NAEP) will be preserved, at least for now. NAEP, also known as the Nation’s reporting card, is The gold standard in students’ assessments And it releases widely used data on how K-12 students refer to basic subjects, including mathematics and reading.
President Trump repeatedly says he plans to close the education department that work more than 4,000 people And there is an annual budget of $ 79 billion.
He In front of Fox News In an interview that aired on Sunday: “I will tell (Elon Musk) very soon, and maybe after 24 hours, to check the Ministry of Education. He will find the same. Then I’ll go, I’m going to the military. Let’s check the military. We will find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars fraud and abuse. “
In recent days, administration employees have also set dozens of employees of the education department on paid administrative leave With a little explanation. At that time, the White House confirmed the president’s plans to close programs within the department that were not protected by law and his plans to call on the congress to close the department completely.
