Report: US math and reading test scores are at a 25-year low. Trump cut the agency that can provide answers

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National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated following Doge canceled crucial contracts As reading and math scores fall to their lowest point in the past quarter-century, the US now has fewer tools to understand and develop interventions for this troubling trend. The report also notes that When the Trump administration took a wrecking ball to the Department of Education last year, firing nearly half of its workers and allowing the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to cancel nearly $900m in contracts, a little-known agency called the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) was among the hardest hit.

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