The Trump administration- along with Elon Musk- has terminated more than $900 million in Education Department contracts, taking away a key source of data on the quality and performance of the nation’s schools. The cuts were made at the behest of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting crew, the Department of Government Efficiency, and were disclosed on X, the social media platform Musk owns, shortly after inquiries were made to the U.S. Department of Education about the decision to decimate the agency’s research and statistics arm, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). https://bit.ly/4hxr8Cd
