3 days ago · Staffers from Elon Musk's secretive government slashing effort, DOGE, have pushed the highest Department of Education officials out of their own offices, rearranged the furniture and set up white ...

4 days ago · WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education moved to terminate nearly $1 billion in research contracts on Monday, a decision critics said depleted the government of vital data sources on ...

4 days ago · Musk’s grip on the Education Department was dealt a setback Tuesday when the agency agreed to temporarily block DOGE workers from more than a dozen internal systems containing sensitive information. DOGE has been tasked with slashing costs across the federal government. As part of a lawsuit challenging its access, the department agreed to ...

4 days ago · Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million, apparently aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of ...

4 days ago · Education Department funds for diversity programs and research initiatives will dry up, according to a series of announcements Monday night about the agency’s future. ... DOGE said the ...

2 days ago · In addition, DOGE caused about 100 Education Department employees to be put on administrative leave for their mostly tangential connections to diversity, equity and inclusion programs, based on ...

Feb 8, 2025 · The New York Times reported that as many as 16 DOGE team members are now listed in the Education Department directory, and according to The Washington Post, they have fed sensitive personal and ...

4 days ago · The action will not affect the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences' College Scorecard. ... DOGE Cuts $900 Million From Agency That Tracks Academic Progress.

Feb 7, 2025 · Education Department employees pushed back, telling the DOGE team that much of the work to help simplify loan applications was required by Congress, the staff members said. Last year, after a botched rollout of a revised FAFSA student aid form, the department added additional support to the call centers to help families with their applications.

4 days ago · Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced it is terminating $881 million worth of Education Department contracts. DOGE announced, in a post on X, that it had cut 29 ...