NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues Dept of Education over ongoing destruction of data infrastructure 💪🎉 Suit is on behalf of National Academy of Education & National Council on Measurement in Education LDF has a long and storied history. So honored they are representing NAEd, of which I am a fellow - ThreadSky

dynarski.bsky.social • 40 days ago

NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues Dept of Education over ongoing destruction of data infrastructure

💪🎉

Suit is on behalf of National Academy of Education & National Council on Measurement in Education

LDF has a long and storied history. So honored they
are representing NAEd, of which I am a fellow

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dynarski.bsky.social•40 days ago

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"The Education Sciences Reform Act (“ESRA”) requires that the federal government maintain robust educational data collection capabilities, and that the Department of
Education collect, maintain, analyze, and disseminate high-quality data through its research initiatives."

dynarski.bsky.social•40 days ago

"Despite these ongoing congressional mandates, Defendants ... have moved swiftly to take actions that restrict the collection and dissemination of federal education information as part of the administration’s ultimate goal of dismantling the Department."

dynarski.bsky.social•40 days ago

"The first disruptive action resulting in the restriction of Department data took place on February 10, 2025, when the Department cancelled over $900 million in Department contracts, including vendor contracts required to maintain and update data collected by IES and its Centers..."

dynarski.bsky.social•40 days ago

"On March 11, 2025, the administration announced a Reduction in Force (“RIF”) of nearly fifty percent of the Department’s workforce. Due to the RIF and other actions by the Department, approximately 90% of IES’s staff was eliminated, shrinking IES to approximately
twenty employees"

dynarski.bsky.social•40 days ago

"NCES—one of the nation’s oldest statistical centers—has shrunk from approximately 100 employees down to three...IES and its Centers are no longer able to comply
with congressional mandates to collect, analyze, and disseminate critical datasets related to education."

dynarski.bsky.social•40 days ago

"Where federal education data does exist, the Department has terminated academic researchers’ access to this data in contravention of the congressional mandate to make IES data
publicly available."

moiety.bsky.social•40 days ago

A reminder to everyone to save important data that could be useful later during Nuremberg 2 for DOGE

biterabbit.bsky.social•40 days ago

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