A spokesperson for the National Assessment Governing Board, who oversees the NAEP, said that scientific scores will be published later this summer, but denied that the absence of a commissioner is the obstacle. “The referral of the report takes place, so the name of a commissioner is not a bureaucratic job for his progress,” said Stephaan Harris by e-mail.
The delay is important. Educational decision -makers wanted to find out if scientific success was stable after the pandemic or plummeted with reading and mathematics. (These reading and mathematics scores were published in January.)
The Trump administration has promised to dismantle the education service and did not answer a question sent by email on the moment when a new commissioner is appointed.
Researchers cling to data
The follow-up of the administration policy can be turning their heads these days. Educational researchers were informed in March that they should abandon the federal data they used for their studies. (The ministry shares limited data sets, which may include personally identifiable information on students, with approved researchers.)
But the researchers learned on June 30 that the ministry had changed their minds and decided not to end this remote access.
Lawyers who continue the Trump administration on behalf of the education researchers announced this issue as a “big victory”. Researchers can now complete ongoing projects.
However, researchers do not have a way to publish or present articles that use this data. Since mass layoffs in mid-March, there is no one who remains within the Department of Education to examine their articles for any inadvertent disclosure of students’ data, a step required before public release. And there is no process for the moment for researchers to request access to data for future studies.
“Although ED’s teaching change concerning distance access is welcome,” said Adam Pulver of the litigation group of public citizens, “other vital services provided by the Institute of Education Sciences have been insane, illogically arrested without examining the impact of the country’s education researchers and the education community.”
Pulver is the main lawyer for one of the three proceedings fighting against the dismissal of research and statistical activities by the Department of Education. The judges of the District of Columbia and Maryland refused the researchers a preliminary injunction to restore research and data reductions. But the Maryland affair is now accelerated and the court asked the Trump administration to produce an administrative file for its decision -making process by July 11. (See this previous story for more context in judicial affairs.)
Some NSF subsidies are restored in California
Just as the Department of Education calmly restarts certain activities that DOGE has killed, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is also the same. The Federal Science Agency published on its website that it had restored 114 prizes at 45 institutions on June 30. NSF said it did so to comply with an order from the Federal Court to restore prices to all researchers from the University of California. We did not know how many of these research projects concerned education, one of the main areas that finance the NSF.
Researchers and universities outside the system of the University of California hope for the same overthrow. In June, the largest professional organization of education researchers, the American Educational Research Association, has teamed up with a large coalition of organizations and institutions to file a legal challenge at the end of subsidies by the NSF. Education subsidies were particularly affected in a series of cups in April and May. Democracy Forward, a law firm of public interest, directs this case to me.
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