Cuts for voice education dominate NSF subsidy terminations
More than half of the finished subsidies …
… And almost three quarters of its value of $ 1 billion are in education
Cortes feel throughout the country. Grant Watch also created a map of the United States, which shows that red and blue states are losing federal research dollars.
It is still an uncle exactly how NSF is choosing which subsidies cancel and exactly who is making the decisions. Weekly cuts of cuts, after the Government Efficiency Department or Doge entered the NSF headquarters in mid -April. Only 40 percent of the finished subsidies were also in a database or 3,400 research grants compiled last year by Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican. Cross characterized They as “questionable projects that promised diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) or advanced propaganda of war of neo-marxist classes.” The sixty percent was not on the cross list.
Another NSF cut also affects education. Earl this year, NSF reduced in the middle of the number of new students that would support through the postgraduate school from 2,000 to 1,000. Universities prepare to listen to this summer if NSF will continue to support postgraduate students who are already part of their postgraduate research scholarship program.
History development
NSF observers were still compiling a list of research subsidies that ended on May 9, the fourth most recent round of research cuts. It was not clear if any research grants an investigation to promote equity in voice education remained active.
The Equity Division for Excellence in Voice, a unit of the Education Directorate, was “Sunset”, according to an email of May 9 sent to NSF employees and obeyed by the Acts Report, and all its employees were fires. According to the email, this “strength reduction” is scheduled to complete before July 12. However, later, on May 9, a federal judge in San Francisco Temporarily blocked the Trump administration Of the implementation, its “reduction in the force” of federal employees in the NSF and another 19 agencies.
Several mandatory programs of the Congress are within the eliminated equity division, including Louis Stokes alliances for minority participation (Lsamp) and the Eddie Bernice Johnson initiativewhich promotes voice participation for students with disabilities.
The process to review and approve new subsidy awards was thrown into the chaos with the Elimination of all Division Directors of NSFA group of intermediate managers who were stripped of their powers on May 8. In addition, NSF He cut his ranks from his highest executives and his scientists, engineers and visiting educators. That leaves many leadership positions in NSF uncertain, including the head of the entire Education Directorate.
Legal update
An initial audience for a Group of three legal cases by education researchers Against the Department of Education is scheduled for May 16. At the hearing, a federal judge in Washington, DC, will listen to arguments on whether the Court must temporarily restore the Department of the Department of the Investigation and Data Collection Department and bring from the Department of EDUCOMACION DE FOLGUE exceeded its executive authority.
A first audience scheduled for May 9 was postponed. At the May 16 Hearing, The Court Will Hear Two Similar Motions from Two Different Cases: One Filled By The Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), and The Other Bycaady of Education (Naed) and Naed By -Education and Naed by by -Education and naed bycadation) and naed bycadocation and naed bycadation) and naed bycadation) and naed bycadation) and bycadation of Naed) and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy) and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Education) of Education and the National Acadeification of Mademia and Themady of Bycading) ciliates. Education (NCME). A third demand by the American Educational Research Association (Aera) and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) was presented in a federal court in Maryland and will not be part of the May 16 Hearing.
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