A joint statement from the American Educational Research Association and the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics put the number of canceled IES contracts closer to 170 and said they included “those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics.”
“It seems that many halted contracts were designed to evaluate outcomes of government programs, which would seem to be the very information that should help guide decisions about where to cut government waste,” said Heather Peske, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.