Summary
Elon Musk’s DOGE cut nearly $900 million in contracts from the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a federal agency that tracks student progress.
The cuts affected 169 contracts, including long-term studies on student learning, special education support, and equity research.
Critics warn this will harm educational accountability and transparency. Congress and research groups are pushing back, calling for reinstatement.
The cuts align with Trump’s broader goal to dismantle the Education Department, though it’s unclear how far he can act without congressional approval.
A dumber America will make a stronger American?
A dumber America will make a easier to control America?
No way having a uneducated population can benefit a society as a whole. Just the select few.
SpaceX in 2040:
Or does Muskrat thinks he can replace all his workers with AI (All Indian)
Can our childrens read good? Lol who tf knows.
“Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?”
Meanwhile, DOGE (I fucking hate that name) increased it’s own funding by over 100%.
Can we just call it the DGE? There’s no reason to use the O. Making it sound silly softens what they’re doing, I think.
It’s interesting, I used to work with IES data and could have had a future in academia had I brown nosed my bigot advisor. All things equal, had I gone that path I think my research would be in jeopardy right around now.
Still a shame, though, IES does good work.
Trying to get a sense of how much money this is for just tracking student progress. Turns out it’s $17 per student in the US with about 51m grade schoolers. And presumably that’s only a fraction of the budget?
Kind of seems high. Not sure what to think about that.
