A spokesman for the National Assessment Board, which runs NAEP, said the scientific scoring will be released later this summer, but denied that the lack of a commissioner was a barrier. “The report building is in progress, so the naming of the commissioner is not a bureaucratic advance,” Stephaan Harris said via email.
Delay is important. Educational policymakers have always been keen on learning that science achievement is to fall while reading and math after the pandemic. (Those reading and math scores were released in January.)
The Trump administration vowed to remove the education sector and did not answer email questions about when a new commissioner will be appointed.
Researchers hang on the data
Nowadays, keeping up with management policies may spin. Education researchers were notified in March that they would have to give up the federal data they used for their research. (The department shares a restricted dataset of approved researchers that can include personally identifiable information about students.)
But researchers learned on June 30 that the department had changed its mind and decided not to terminate such remote access.
Lawyers who sued the Trump administration on behalf of education researchers heralds the scope is a “big victory.” Researchers can now complete ongoing projects.
Still, researchers do not have a way to publish or introduce papers using this data. Due to the massive shooting in mid-March, no one in the education department can review its papers to understand any unintentional disclosure of student data, which is a necessary step before the public release. Currently, researchers have no process yet to require data access for future research.
Adam Pulver of the Citizens Litigation Panel said: “Ed’s heart changes in remote access are meaningless and illogically stopped without taking into account the impact on the national education researchers and the education community, and we will continue to impose responsibility on other cases.
Pulver is the lead attorney for one of three lawsuits with the Education Department to terminate research and statistical activities. Judges in the District of Columbia and Maryland denied that researchers were a preliminary injunction to resume research and data cuts. But the case in Maryland is now on fast, and the court has asked the Trump administration to develop an administrative record of its decision-making process by July 11 (see the previous story for more context on the court case).
California restores some NSF grants
Just as the education sector is quietly restarting some killing activities, so is the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Federal Bureau of Science published on its website and as of June 30, it has resumed 114 awards. The NSF said it comply with federal court orders to restore the rulings of all UC researchers. It is unclear how much of these research projects involves education, one of the main areas of NSF funding.
Researchers outside the University of California system and universities hope for the same reversal. In June, the largest organization of education researchers, the American Association for Education Research, joined forces with a large number of organizations and institutions to raise legal challenges to the NSF’s massive termination of grants. Education grants have been particularly hit amid a series of cuts in April and May. Democracy Forward is a public interest law firm that he took the lead.
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