Federal cuts are set to result in a slimmer Nation’s Report Card, confirming education and assessment experts’ fears that the assessment would be trimmed — and despite officials’ assurances that the congressionally mandated test would be preserved.
As part of the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the government, the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), voted on April 21, 2025 to cut assessments in various subjects over the next eight years.
Among those cuts: state-level reading and math for 12th graders that were scheduled for 2032 and the national long-term trend assessment that was set for 2029, which comes on the heels of the 2025 long-term trend assessment’s cancellation earlier this year.
The next long-term trend assessment is scheduled for 2033.
A handful of other voluntary assessments were cut, mainly for 8th and 12th graders, including writing.
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