Almost $1 billion in cuts have been made to the Department of Education by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The fate of the department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which tracks the progress of the nation’s students, remains unclear after scores of contracts were terminated by Musk’s team on Monday, according to the Associated Press.
Madison Biedermann, a spokesperson for the Education Department, told the AP that the cuts will not affect the institute’s primary work, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation’s report card, and the College Scorecard, a database of university costs and outcomes.
https://www.newsweek.com/cuts-made-department-education-billion-dollars-cuts-savings-jobs-2029795
