It is getting harder and harder to look at these moves and find evidence of cost cutting. Cancelling contracts with the Institute of Education Sciences is what you'd do if you wanted to control the information environment around schools, which is a fundamentally different goal.
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NEW: DOGE is behind the abrupt cancellation of $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, a Department of Education division responsible for much of what we know about the state of U.S. schools.
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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What about the part that promised to pay teachers' student loans if they taught in Rural districts, and then gave them nothing?
DOEd has some Splainin to do, as I see it.