Biedermann said the Trump administration “absolutely” intends to maintain a role in educational research, even when it seeks to close the department. The closure will require the approval of the Congress, which has not yet happened. Meanwhile, Biedermann said the department, looking at the entire government to find where its research and statistics activities “better adjust.”
Other activities also seem to resume. In June, the department revealed in a legal presentation that had or has plans to restore 20 of the 101 terminated contracts. Among the activities programmed to restart are 10 regional education laboratories that are associated with school districts and states to generate and apply evidence. It is still an uncle how the 20 contracts without federal employees can be restarted to maintain competitive bidding processes and supervise them.
At the beginning of September, the Department published Eight new jobs To help administer the National Evaluation of Educational Progress (NAEP), also called the Nation Report. These positions would be part of the IES Statistics Division, the National Center for Education Statistics. Most of the work in development and administration tests is managed by external suppliers, but federal employees are necessary to grant and supervise these contracts. After Mass shooting In March, the employees of the Board that Supervisa NAEP have a loan leg to the Department of Education to ensure that the NAEP 2026 test is on time.
There is only one small staff in IES. Some educational statistics have resorted to Trump Toke’s office, including their First version of higher education data on September 23. But data versions have a leg late and incomplete.
It is believed that there are no new subsidies have leg problems for education studies since March, according to researchers who are familiar with the federal subsidies process, but that they are asked not to identify themselves for fear of reprisals. A great obstacle is that a contract was canceled to carry out a revision in pairs of the research proposals so that new ideas cannot be properly examined. The remaining personnel are trying to make annual disbursements for studies of several older years that have not been canceled.
With all these changes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discover the state of educational research funded by the federal government. A potential source of clarity is a new project Launched by two researchers from George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University. Rob Olsen and Betsy Wolf, who was an IES researcher until March, are tracking cancellations and maintaining a record of investigation results for political leaders.
If it succeeds, it will be a very necessary light through chaos.
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