Trump put an end to that effort as part of his quest to dissolve the Department of Education.

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But most of the Institute of Education Science’s work has been stopped. Seventy-eight contracts haven’t come back.

Its lawyers said it was evaluating 16 other contracts to possibly be reinstated, potentially after adjusting the scope and seeking bids from additional vendors.

Beginning in February, Trump cut at least 106 contracts that funded education research, federal program evaluations, data collection and related priorities. In response to a lawsuit, the administration reinstated 12 contracts, including the experiment on the early warning system for reading.

Into that regulatory void has stepped Andrew Whelton, an engineering professor at Purdue University who has made it his personal mission to help water utilities recover after devastating fires.

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The board canceled more than a dozen tests when it revised the NAEP schedule in April. This annotated version of the previous schedule, adopted in 2023, shows which tests were canceled. Topics annotated with a red star are no longer scheduled for revision.

The tests regularly measure what students across the country know in reading, math and other subjects. They allow the government to track how well America’s students are learning. Researchers can also combine the national data with the results of tests administered by states to draw comparisons.

Among staff cast aside by DOGE were those who worked on the National Assessment of Educational Progress — also known as the Nation’s Report Card. The assessment is a series of tests administered nearly every year to a national sample of more than 10,000 students in grades 4, 8 and 12.

Explore the database of nursing homes in the story. For each one, see:

• Percent of residents with a serious mental illness
• Number of abuse-related citations
• Nurse staffing rating

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