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Former data staff from the agency say they’re especially concerned about large transfers of data and the future of grants ...
The Trump administration’s attempt to gut the Institute of Education Sciences—a key research arm of the Education Department—is now facing yet another legal challenge.
The IES cuts have drawn backlash among some ... million in grants designed to improve teacher quality. The administration said the programs promoted “divisive ideologies” like “diversity ...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon pushed back against DEI efforts meant to close achievement gaps, calling them a form of ...
A federal appeals court overturned a lower court's order that had temporarily restored millions of dollars in terminated ...
The contract terminations come as the Trump administration ... for education research and program evaluation work done by the Institute of Education Sciences, or IES, the research arm of the ...
At a time when federal and state policymakers are eager to expand career and technical education, we need evidence more than ...
“The [reduction in force] has made it impossible for IES to perform its multiple statutory ... and contract cancellations overstep the Trump administration’s executive authority.
Now, in response to the IES report, the national organization that oversees TAP has made the same arguments in defense of its own program. To a cynic, this sounds suspiciously like trying to avoid ...
because testing programs adopted by each state can vary considerably. IES was established in 2002 during the administration of Republican President George W. Bush to fund innovations and identify ...