In a July 14 statement, Peggy Carr, the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), said the nonpartisan education statistics agency cannot fulfill its statutory responsibilities in its current state. According to Carr, “It is impossible for three, five, or even a dozen people to fulfill the statutory responsibilities of NCES or to fully inform policymakers, educators, and the American public of the condition of education. What has occurred is a quiet, devastating shutdown and decimation of a critical national institution.”
According to Carr, states and school districts will lose their ability to compare education data as a result of the administration’s decimation of NCES, With the lack of data, the nation will also be unable to measure whether education policy changes are effective.
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