The Press Office of the Department of Education said that he had no comments beyond what had been disclosed in the legal memory.
Educational researchers, who continue the Trump administration to restore all of their previous research and statistical activities, were not satisfied.
Elizabeth Tipton, president of the Society for Research on Educational Efficiency (SREE), said that limited reintegration was “overwhelming”. “They are trying to make the IES as small as possible,” she said, referring to the Institute of Education Sciences, Research and Department data.
SREE and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) pursue McMahon and the Department of Education in the Maryland affair. The prosecution requires a temporary reinstatement of all contracts and the rehabilitation of IES employees while the courts rule the broader constitutional question of the question of whether the Trump administration violated the laws of the congress and exceeded its executive authority.
The 20 reintegration have not been ordered by the Court, and in some cases, the Department of Education voluntarily restarts only a small group of a research activity, which makes it impossible to produce something significant for the public. For example, the Department said it resettled an operating contract of Whats Clearinghouse, a website that informs schools of educational practices based on evidence. But, in the legal memoryThe ministry revealed that he did not plan to restore any of the contracts to produce new content for the site.
In the ShortThe administration admitted that the statues of the congress mention a range of research and data collection activities. But lawyers have argued that legislative language often uses the word May instead of Must, or notes that evaluations of educational programs should be carried out “as time and resources allow it”.
“Reading together, the ministry has a large discretionary power on the question of whether and what enterprising assessments,” wrote lawyers for the administration.
The Trump administration argued that as long as it has at least one contract in place, it technically fulfills a mandate in the congress. For example, the congress requires that the Department of Education participate in international assessments. This is why he restarts the contract to administer the International Student Assessment Program (PISA), but no other international assessments in which the country has participated, such as trends in the international study of mathematics and sciences (TIMSS).
The administration argued that the researchers had not convincingly argued that they would be irreparably injured if many contracts were not restarted. “No prejudice is allegedly not having access to unclear data in the event of non-creation,” wrote lawyers.
One of the terminated contracts was supposed to help state training agencies create longitudinal data systems to follow the students of the pre-K in the workforce. The dissertation of the ministry says that states, not the professional associations of researchers, should continue to restore these contracts.
In six cases, the administration said it was asking the opportunity to restart a study. For example, the legal dissertation says that because the congress requires the evaluation of literacy programs, the ministry plans to reintegrate a study of the reader’s complete literacy program. But the lawyers said that there was no urgency to restart it because there is no deadline for evaluations in legislative language.
In four other cases, the Trump administration said it was not possible to restart a study, despite the requirements of the congress. For example, Congress obliges the Department of Education to identify and assess promising adult education strategies. But after putting an end to such a study in February, the Department of Education admitted that it was now too difficult to restart it. The ministry also said that he could not easily restart two studies on mathematics programs in unprotective schools. One of the studies requested the implementation of the mathematics program during the first year and studied the second year, which made it particularly difficult to restart. A fourth study that the ministry said that it could not restart would have assessed the effectiveness of additional services to help disabled adolescents go from high school to college or work. When Doge has disconnected this study, those Adolescents have lost these services Also.
