The officers of the investigative associations described the complex calcals to sue the Government, aware that many of them work in universities that are attacked by the Trump administration and that its members are concerned about reprisals.
“A situation like this requires a little faith of faith,” said Elizabeth Tipton, president of the Educational Effective Research Society and a statistic at Northwestern University. “They reminded us that we are society for research on educational effectiveness, and that is an existential threat. If the destruction we see continues, we exist, and our members will not exist. Compensation were in our favor, to our sense that if we won or lost, we had to defend this.”
The three demands are similar, since everyone argues that the Trump administration exceeded its executive authority by eliminating the activities that Congress requires by law. Private citizens or organizations are generally forbidden to demand the federal government, who enjoy legal protection known as “sovereign immunity.” But according to the administrative procedure law of 1946, private organizations can ask the courts to intervene when executive agencies have acted arbitrarily, capricious and not in accordance with the law. The demands indicate, for example, that the 2002 Education Sciences Reform Law specifically requires that the Department of Education operates regional education laboratories and performs longitudinal and special data collections, activities that education eliminated in February.
The demands argue that it is impossible for the Department of Education to carry out their duties required by Congress, such as the award of subsidies to study and identify effective teaching practices, after the dismissal of March of almost 90 percent of the IESses. Research organizations argue that their members and the field of education in education will be irrepararily damaged.
Or the immediate group are two terms of June. As of June 1, researchers are scheduled to lose remote access to restricted data sets, which may include personal identification information about students. The demands argue that the loss harms the capacity of the researchers to finish the projects in progress and plan future studies. Researchers say they cannot publish or present studies that use data because there is no one to remove within the Education Department to review their documents for any inadvertent dissemination of students’ data.
The second concern is that the termination of more than 1,300 employees of the Department of Education will become definitive on June 10. Technically, these employees have been on administrative license since March, and the lawyers for educational associations are concerned about the one who gave themselves to themselves that they adhered to themselves that was made to Ited Ited Ited Itaned Ittis. Research experts for the tasks required by Congress.
The costumes describe additional concerns. External contractors are responsible for showing historical data sets because the Department of Education does not possess the data warehouse, and researchers are concerned about who will maintain these critical data in the months and years that contracts now contracts the contracts the contracts the contracts the contracts the contracts the contracts the contracts. Another concern is that contracts ending for research and surveys include clauses that will force researchers to eliminate data on their subjects. “Years of work have been done in these studies,” said Dan McGrath, a lawyer for Democracy Forward. “At some point, it will not be possible to join Humpty Dumpty.”
In two of the lawsuits, lawyers have asked the courts a temporary court order to reverse cuts and shots, temporarily restore studies and bring federal employees to the Department of Education to continue their work while the judges take longer to decide whether the Trump administration exceeded their authority. The lawyers of the third lawsuit said they plan to do the same but have not yet submitted this paperwork. The first hearing on a temporary court order is scheduled on Thursday at the Federal District Court of Washington.
Many people have a leg waiting for this. In February, when Dege began to reduce non -ideological studies and data collection in the Department of Education, he asks me why Congress was not protesting that his laws were ignored. And I was wondering where the research community was. It was very difficult to make someone talk to the album. Now these costumes, combined with Harvard University Trump administration resistanceShow that Highher Education is finally finding his voice and fights what he sees as existential threats.
The three costumes:
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Public citizen
Claimants: Finance and Education Policy Association (AEFP) and the Institute of Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Lawyers: group of litigation of public citizens
DEMANDED: Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and the United States Department of Education
Presentation date: April 4
Where: District Court of the United States for the district of Columbia
Documents: complaintPublic citizen Press release“
A concern: data infrastructure. “We want to do our best to protect essential data and research infrastructure,” said Michal Kurlaender, president of AEFP and professor at the University of California, Davis.
State: The public citizen submitted a request for a temporary court order on April 17 that was accompanied by statements by researchers on how they and the field of education have been harmed. The Department of Education presented an answer on April 30. An audience is scheduled for May 9.
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Front democracy
Claimants: American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
Lawyers: Front democracy
Respondents: Department of Education of the United States, Institute of Education Sciences, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and Interant Director of the Matthew Soldner Institute of Education Sciences
Presentation date: April 14
Where: District Court of the United States for the Maryland district, South Division
Documents: complaintDemocracy forward Press releaseAerá Letter to members
A concern: future research. “The IS has been fundamental for ghost research on what works and what does not work, and to provide this information to schools so that they can better prepare students for their future,” said Ellen Weiss, executive director of SREE. “Our postgraduate students are stuck in their work and volcan in their progress towards a title. Practitioners and policy formulators also suffer great damage, since they are allowed to boost decisions without the benefit of empirical data and the high quality of Ara.”
State: A temporary court request was submitted on April 29, accompanied by statements by investigators on how their work is damaged.
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Legal Defense Fund demand
Claimants: National Academy of Education (NAED) and the National Council for Education Measurement (NCME)
Lawyers: Legal Defense Fund
DEMANDED: The Department of Education and Secretary of Education of the United States Linda McMahon
Presentation date: April 24
Where: District Court of the United States for the district of Columbia
Documents: complaintLDF Press release
A concern: data quality. “The law requires not only access to data but also the quality of the data,” said Andrew Ho, a professor of education at Harvard University and former president of the National Education Measurement Council. “For 88 years, our organization has confirmed standards for valid measurements and research that depends on these measurements. We do it again today.”
State: LDF lawyers plan to submit a request for a temporary injury.
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