The Trump administration has terminated more than $900 million in Education Department contracts, taking away a key source of data on the quality and performance of the nation鈥檚 schools.
The cuts were made at the behest of聽, the Department of Government Efficiency, and were disclosed on X, the social media platform Musk owns, shortly after ProPublica posed questions to U.S. Department of Education staff about the decision to decimate the agency鈥檚 research and statistics arm, the聽.
A spokesperson for the department, Madi Biedermann, said that the standardized test known as the nation鈥檚 report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, would not be affected. Neither would the聽, which allows people to search for and compare information about colleges, she said.
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