An independent research arm within the US Department of Education is being all but shut down, employees of the department say. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for gathering and disseminating data on a wide range of topics, including research-backed teaching practices and the state of US student achievement, SİA informs via NPR.
Many contracts have already been canceled, according to two employees briefed on the moves. They shared screenshots with NPR of emails sent on Monday notifying them of terminated contracts.
The employees said they learned of the cuts at an emergency meeting called Monday afternoon by leaders of IES, a nonpartisan division of the Education Department that includes the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
The employees asked that their names not be used because they feared for their jobs.
NPR reached out to the Department of Education, and to the White House, for comment. The White House has not responded. An Education Department spokesperson replied by sharing a link to a Monday evening post on the X account for DOGE.
The post said, "the Department of Education terminated 89 contracts worth $881mm" and that "one contractor was paid $1.5mm to 'observe mailing and clerical operations' at a mail center."
But a third source with extensive knowledge of many of these canceled, Education Department contracts, who would not speak publicly for fear of retribution, told NPR that one shuttered program was already underway in classrooms – to study ways to help students nationwide make up for ground they've lost in math.
According to this source, students in multiple states were already working with high-quality, adaptive digital tools. Now, with the cancellation of that contract, the study will be cut short, and the learning tools could soon be removed from classrooms.
The canceled contracts also include surveys and data-collection on a range of issues, including private schools, homeschooling and career and technical education programs.
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