From FedScoop
The Trump administration wants the Education Department to collect more college admissions data, even as it slashes the very staff that ensures the statistics are credible and accurate.
From early childhood to K-12 and higher education, schools across the country have relied for decades on the Education Department’s data collections to inform policy. President Donald Trump now wants to leverage it to investigate whether race-based preferences are used in college admissions.
But with the agency’s research offices gutted, various data collection contracts in limbo and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) — the agency’s statistical branch — left with just three employees, questions swirl over whether the task is feasible.
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