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Perfect call and response here.

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SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me. The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

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Losing homeschool data

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 6 days ago • 317 comments

Old school scaries.

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Our latest resource is a comprehensive landscape of the data ecosystem related to postsecondary access, completion, and ROI. It unpacks leaders’ data needs, current challenges, and how states can improve their SLDSs and use data to support students. dataqualitycampaign.org/resource/pow...

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"When government data are removed or locked away, the American public loses one of its most powerful tools for decision-making and accountability." informedchoice1996.substack.com/p/roads-and-...

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“The data belongs to the people,” Woodworth said. “It doesn’t belong to the president. It belongs to the public. It is a public asset.” hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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On the anniversary of the ACA, it’s worth noting that we all have a pre-existing condition.

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It can be difficult to get clear data after a policy change indicating impact. This is stunning.

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I recently completed the FAFSA for my boys and it’s great because the new form is able to pull my income data directly from the IRS saving me a lot of time. But I had to consent for that data to be shared between IRS and ED.

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With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Thread worth your time.

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President Trump said from the Oval Office this morning that the nation's student loan portfolio will move from the Education Department to the Small Business Administration and special education and special education and nutrition will go to the Health and Human Services Department.

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The Education what now?

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 12 days ago • 1707 comments

Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun "Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 15 days ago • 195 comments

I’m not eligible for SS quite yet but I fall into the latter category and it worries me that this will happen. Especially because the country I was born in doesn’t exist anymore (west Germany) and I could see a 20 year old thinking it’s fake.

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Within minutes of showing up at the IRS, a twenty-something software engineer dispatched from DOGE began demanding access to the tax collection agency’s most protected internal databases — including the one containing the personal and financial data for millions of American taxpayers.

submitted 15 days ago • 635 comments

And where did the data come from that forecasters were using to save lives?

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The Civil War is a not a reference to DEI. It’s a thing that happened. It’s American history. What exactly was inclusive about it? The misery? Or equitable? There were two sides so you can’t even claim diversity of thought.

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Consumer sentiment plummeted in March, with declines seen consistently across all groups by age, education, income, wealth, political affiliations (D & R), geographic regions. Sentiment has now fallen for three consecutive months and is currently down 22% from December 2024. 🧵 www.sca.isr.umich.edu

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This agency was established in 1867. This isn’t some some modern new idea that takes power from states. They literally support states.

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Senseless pain is about to be afflicted to D.C., a place that has no congressional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

submitted 17 days ago • 706 comments

Heartbreaking to write but here we are. Congress established the education statistical agency (NCES) in 1867. Today it’s gone. The need remains, however.

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You bet I vaccinated both of my boys the year they were eligible.

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This is the bad place.

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Heartbreaking.

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I have heard this now from multiple folks. Federal data collection and analysis pre-dates the establishment of the Department of Ed by a hundred years. Their role is critical.

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New post focused on Education data. A data user wrote, "Many of those users are likely unaware that IPEDS is the source data underpinning the tools they use. Loss of IPEDS data would impact high school students and school staff across the country." www.datarescueproject.org/education-da...

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Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

When it comes to nuclear weapons I actually want perfect.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Policy by keyword search is not exactly the data driven approach I was hoping for.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I’m looking at you, philanthropy. 👋

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Looking at all economic indicators I guess we officially now know that POLICY MATTERS.

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Opinion | Ed Data Goes Dark: Why It Matters Cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences are part of an authoritarian playbook, Robert Ubell writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3QNv5qz

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"Eliminating federal evaluation spending ... would also blind the government to the effects of its own policies and, as a result, lead to waste and poorer outcomes for participants in federally funded programs and recipients of federal aid."

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Love a good data viz.

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It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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In 2020 (just like in 2009), states got serious about state data systems because state economies were at risk. Expect to see the same in 2025. I think I will be busy.

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WSJ: “.. Fully unwinding the department would require a filibuster-proof, 60-vote majority in the Senate, legal experts have said. .. The draft order doesn't mention Congress.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 24 days ago • 103 comments

President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.

submitted 24 days ago • 114 comments

The loss of empathy aside, we seem to have also lost an understanding of “return on investment”. Sometimes you have to spend to save.

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