Cuts in effect wipe out Institute of Education Sciences, one of the country\u2019s largest funders of education research<\/p>\n
Elon Musk<\/a> and the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) has terminated nearly $1bn in US Department of Education contracts, in effect eliminating a research office that tracks US students\u2019 progress.<\/p>\n After announcing $101m would be slashed from 29 DEI training grants on Monday, the Doge account on Twitter\/X<\/a> said that Musk\u2019s team terminated 89 contracts worth a total of $881m on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cuts in effect wipe out Institute of Education Sciences, one of the country\u2019s largest funders of education research Elon Musk and the Trump administration\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) has terminated nearly $1bn in US Department of Education contracts, in effect eliminating a research office that tracks US students\u2019 progress. After announcing $101m would … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}