The Trump administration has stopped more than $ 900 million in the contracts of the education department, taking away the key source of the country’s quality and productivity.
Cuts were made by freedom Elona crew Elon MuskThe Department of Government Effectiveness and were disclosed on the X, the social media platform Musk owns, shortly after the propublica raised questions to the US Ministry of Education on the decomance and statistics of the agency, The ARM, The ARM, The Institute of Education Sciences.
Madi Biderman’s press secretary said a standardized test known as a country report, a national evaluation of progress in education will not affect. Neither Map of CollegeWhich allows people to seek and compare college information, she said.
IES – one of the largest financial research in the field of education, and the reduction of contracts can mean significant loss of public knowledge about school. The Institute supports a large -scale database of educational statistics and contracts with scientists and educational companies to collect and make school data on schools each year, such as school crime and safety and completion of science in high school.
Its total annual budget is about $ 815 million, or approximately 1% of the total budget of the education department of $ 82 billion this financial year. $ 900 million in contracts that the Department cancels includes long -term agreements.
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A huge part of the data represents most of what we know about the state of the state of America about 130,000 schools, and without the national data and statistics storage, parents and educators will be more difficult to track schools or compare students’ achievements in different states.
Since 1867, the Federal Agency for Education Statistics, though the current iteration was created in 2002 under President George W.. Congress cancels funding for the institute’s work.
Bidermann’s Deputy Assistant Communications Secretary, said Propublica that he could not provide detailed information about the canceled contracts, saying that “my understanding is that we do not miss specific information.”
But she said there were 90 contracts that were defined as “waste, fraud and abuse.” She said that the cancellation of them “in accordance with the purpose of the department is to make sure that it is focused on considerable training” and “make sure that taxpayers are used properly.”
For more details, she sent the reporter to the DOGE account on X.
DOGE wrote in a message: “In addition, the Education Department stopped 89 contracts worth $ 881 million. One contractor was paid $ 1.5 million to” observe the mailing and service operations “.
The Trump administration has repeatedly expressed its desire to “return” responsibility for schools in the state, although state and local authorities are already monitoring the largest share of education financing. There is no national curriculum; States and districts decide why to teach and dictate their own politics.
The American Institute of Research, a non -profit organization that conducts research in the field of education and other fields, said on Monday that it received notifications for the termination of several contracts that are being conducted, and that it will be eliminated by a bad financial decision.
“This is an incredible waste of dollars of taxpayers who have been invested in accordance with applause in Congress and many in accordance with the specific legislation-in many years of data collection and analysis, as well as for assessment of programs,” said Dana Tofig spokesman in electronic electronic Leaves. The commercial organization has signed a contract with the Department for many years.
Schools and districts across the country are counting on IES and contractors research such as American research institutes to guide the best class practices.
“These investments inform the entire education system of all levels of education and distribution of students, teachers and resources in school districts throughout America,” Tofig said.
“If the purpose of such cuts is to make sure that the taxpayers are not spent, and the well used, the assessment and the work that has been stopped is precisely the work that determines which programs are effective use of federal dollars and which are not.”
Senator Patti Murray, Democrat Washington, blew up the contract on IES. “The non-elected billionaire is now bulldozing the research part of the Department of Education-Purrent Ball to Quality Research and Basic Data we need to improve our public schools,” the statement reads. “Disabling these investments after the contract has already been ink, is a waste.”
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