As new details about the cancellation of contracts at the Department of Education trickle out and daily decisions are being made that impact research and evidence-building, there’s an air of confusion and uncertainty among educators, communities, and advocacy groups alike.
A new series written by DQC’s Jenn Bell-Ellwanger and Paige Kowalski aims to bring the “so what” on what’s happening by compiling the highlights of recent developments, unpacking their potential implications for data efforts, and laying out some of our questions about what comes next.
The first edition of this blog series unpacks how these terminated contracts will impact education efforts in four key ways:
- Halting ongoing research into pressing problems directly related to state and local education policies;
- Canceling statutorily mandated evaluations to understand and ensure the transparency and efficacy of major national investments in education;
- Compromising critical national-level education data that enables transparency and research. This information could never be replaced by individual state data collections; and
- Eliminating the support and guidance that ensure education data at all levels is protected, understood, and disseminated.
For more on what we know, and the questions we’re asking about the future, see the full blog post.
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