Musk’s Team Slashes the Education Department

“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 Education Sciences,” the New York Times reports.

“The team Mr. Musk has assembled, which has operated in relative secrecy in shuttering other agencies such as USAID and slashing government programs, said on Monday that the Education Department had ‘terminated’ 89 contracts, as well as 29 grants associated with diversity and equity training.”

“Most, if not all, of the contract cuts hit the Institute of Education Sciences’ portfolio, including Education Innovation and Research grants and review projects associated with the What Works Clearinghouse, which produces and curates research on best practices in education.”