LDF Sues U.S. Department of Education on Behalf of Education Research Organizations Over Discontinuation of Critical Demographic Data Collection
#NAACP #DOE #education #demographics #law
https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-sues-u-s-department-of-education-on-behalf-of-education-research-organizations-over-discontinuation-of-critical-demographic-data-collection/
wtf
"...Covered Agencies shall issue a sunset rule, effective not later than September 30, 2025, that inserts a Conditional Sunset Date into each of their Covered Regulations."
#politics #DoE #DataRemoval #DataRescue
"Rachel Rush-Marlowe, the founder and executive director of the education policy think tank ResearchEd and a former Education Department employee, spoke with NPF’s Widening the Pipeline fellows about how to access education data and accurately represent what the statistics communicate in their stories."
Mastodon hivemind, does anyone know of a good example/dataset with Design of Experiments (#DOE) for systems /experimental biology?
I want to get into DoE but most examples I see come from chemistry and I would prefer examples closer to my domain expertise :)
#Lennox's new extreme cold #heatpump operates at as low as -20F
It’s called Dave Lennox Signature® Collection SL22KLV Cold Climate Heat Pump, and Lennox claims its efficiency levels are 150% higher at colder temperatures than standard heat pumps.
In 2022, Lennox was first company to complete first phase of the #US #DOE Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump (CCHP) Technology Challenge, and the SL22KLV is a souped up version of the unit developed for that challenge.
https://electrek.co/2025/02/25/lennox-new-extreme-cold-heat-pump-minus-20f/
New York public schools reject Trump DEI orders (The Hill, 2025-04-05)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5234315-new-york-public-schools-reject-trump-dei-orders/
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"The New York State Education Department officials said Friday, 'We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems «diversity, equity & inclusion.»
“'But there are no federal or state laws prohibiting the principles of D.E.I.,' Daniel Morton-Bentley, counsel and deputy commissioner of New York’s Department of Education, said in a Friday letter to the #DOE"
"Federal funds comprise around six percent of New York’s K-12 school funding."
"In their demand, the DOE’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor said that 'federal financial assistance is a privilege, not a right.'”
⭒1 Subscriber = 1 Motivation!⭒ 「Long-form MMD playlist」: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs8njH2IVsPrODxqPPu2bqDxfB4neMs6a&si=sRWY8wUSd1tfyULAUpdate. "‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of #Education Dept.’s #Data Warehouse"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/breathtakingly-irresponsible-former-workers-decry-decimation-of-education-dept-s-data-warehouse
"More than 160 contracts measuring educational progress across the nation’s schools and colleges were suddenly halted. Probationary workers were fired, employees were blocked from accessing information on their computers, and a national center that dates to the time of Abraham Lincoln was effectively decommissioned overnight. Employees worked late into the evenings downloading data that had taken decades to compile, according to interviews with more than a dozen people fired from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), an independent and nonpartisan agency within the U.S. Department of Education [#DOE], and its National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…IES, which had 173 employees before the cuts, was left with just over a dozen after Elon #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept through the Education Department early last month. The crippling of the office was so swift and haphazard that it left serious doubts about how much of the educational data that has informed higher-education policy and practice will continue to be available."
Dem. Gov. Meyer of Delaware says the country needs more investment in #education, not cuts.
He is absolutely right, but dictators, like felon Trump, want stupid people who won’t question them.
#uspolitics #corruption #felontrump #doe
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/education/governors-react-trump-department-of-education/
#GOPMAGA wants to send the power of public education back to the states. Yeah, so segregation, neo-evangelical white nationalism, religious school vouchers can be installed with those taxpayer dollars.
Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department
I have a dream where I am able to dismantle the Felon Trump regime.
Trump hat gerade einen executive order unterzeichnet, um das föderale US- #Bildungsministerium (#DoE) möglichst vollständig abzuschaffen - nachdem bereits zuvor Gelder & Mitarbeitende drastisch zusammengestrichen wurden.
Die Erklärung dazu ist wie immer gespickt mit Falschbehauptungen, und der Plan folgt dem autoritären Project 2025, von dem er angeblich nichts gewusst haben wollte.
Live-Berichte & Hintergründe:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce985pxlr70t
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/mar/20/live-trump-wants-to-close-the-education-department/
The Department of Education has been next.
We collected what we already did safeguard in this thread:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/t/collection-department-of-education
We got:
- data.ed.gov
- ocrdata.ed.gov
- nces.ed.gov
- eric.ed.gov
- nces.gov/programs/
- ope.ed.gov/dapip/
- studentaid.gov
- iog.ed.gov
- sites.ed.gov
Do you know of anything else from the DoE that needs safeguarding?
Please ping us!
cc @SafeguardingResearch
#SafeguardingResearch #DoE #Education
#Trump plans to sign #ExecutiveOrder on Thurs to shut down #Education Dept
Finalizing the elimination of the #DoE would [normally] require an act of #Congress, but a WH fact sheet said the EO would direct Education Secy [& fmr pro-wrestling promoter
] #LindaMcMahon “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure (of) the Department of Education & return education authority to the States.”
#law #USpol #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-19-2025#00000195-b06f-d117-abf5-f17f7d7a0000
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Table of #DOGE members.
(51 - 55) (of 68)
From #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#DOGE_members
51) #AustinRaynor, Lawyer, senior advisor, #OPM, #EOP
52) #RyanRiedel, Chief Information Officer, #DOE
53) #RachelRiley, Senior advisor in the Office of the Secretary, #HHS
54) #MichaelRusso, Chief Information Officer, #SSA
55) #AmandaScales, Chief of Staff, OPM
Update. "#APDU [Association of Public Data Users] Statement on #Education Research and #Data"
https://apdu.org/?p=5812775
"On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, over 1,000 staff from the Department of Education [#DOE] were laid off. This includes almost all staff from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), which housed the National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…NCES is mandated by law to report on the condition of education annually, collect and disseminate key education data, and support state and local education agencies…The [layoffs] make it unclear how NCES will meet its legal obligations under the Education Sciences Reform Act, Every Student Succeeds Act, the Information Quality Act, and other federal laws…Congress and policymakers must act to ensure NCES has the resources to meet its statutory obligations. Stakeholders—including researchers, educators, and state leaders—must demand transparency on how education data will be maintained."
I know this is just the normal #Trump garbage, but it’s important to remember the ramifications. If he says something like people at #DOE didn’t show up for work, ridiculous as that assertion is on its face, many people will accept it as gospel fact. As a result, the pernicious myth that federal employees are all lazy louts who don’t deserve their paychecks and are hardly working as opposed to working hard stays ingrained in the psyche of society. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DHG1wP5JEVm
