Cut education-dominated NSF grant termination
More than half of the termination grants…
… Nearly three-quarters of the billion-dollar value is education
The cuts were felt across the country. Grant Watch also created a U.S. map showing that both the red and blue states lost federal fellowships.
It is unclear how the NSF chooses which grants to cancel and who is making the decision. The weekly wave of cuts began after government efficiency or thresholds entered NSF headquarters in mid-April. Of the database of 3,400 research grants compiled by Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas last year, only 40% of the grants are also in the database. Cruz describes them as “suspicious projects that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) or advanced Neo-Marxist class war propaganda.” 60% are not on the Cruz list.
Other NSF cuts will also affect education. Earlier this year, the NSF reduced its number of freshmen supported through graduate school in half, increasing it from 2,000 to 1,000. If NSF continues to support graduate students who are already part of its graduate research fellowship program, the university will hear this summer.
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NSF observers are still compiling a list of research grants that ended on May 9, the most recent fourth round of research cuts. It is unclear whether any research has promoted equity in STEM education.
According to an email sent to NSF employees on May 9 and obtained by Hechinger Report, the Department of Education’s Excellence Stock Excellence STEM’s stock division is “Sunset” and all employees were fired. According to the email, this “effective reduction” is scheduled to be completed by July 12. However, in late May 9, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the Trump administration from implementing “reduced force” for its federal employees in the NSF and 19 other agencies.
Several Congressional mandatory programs were placed in the eliminated equity sector, including the Louis Stokes Alliance (LSAMP) and Eddie Bernice Johnson initiatives, which promotes STEM participation for students with disabilities.
The process of reviewing and approving the new grant award was eliminated by all NSF department directors, a group of middle-level managers who were disenfranchised on May 8. In addition, NSF has cut positions as its top senior executives and their visitors, engineers, engineers, engineers, engineers and educators. This has made many leadership positions in the NSF, including the head of the Education Bureau as a whole.
Legal updates
Education researchers’ preliminary hearings on three legal cases by the Ministry of Education are scheduled to take place on May 16. During the hearing, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. will hear debates over whether the court should temporarily resume termination of research and data collection and bring back fired education staff, considering whether the Trump administration exceeds its executive powers.
The first hearing scheduled for May 9 has been postponed. At the hearing on May 16, the court will hear two similar motions in two different cases: one brought by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), and another submitted by the National Academy of Education (NAED) and the National Committee on Educational Measurement. The third lawsuit filed by the American Association for Educational Research (AERA) and the Association for Educational Effectiveness Research (SREE) was filed in federal court in Maryland and will not attend the May 16 hearing.
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