TONIGHT — Just after 8:30pm tonight, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker shared that the Texas National Guard is being deployed to Chicago. “This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States.”

grateful for local coverage of what has been happening in Chicago. children separated from their families, targeted raids in Black neighborhoods, ICE arrests and detaining. please share and follow @unraveledpress.com @thetriibe.com @blockclubchi.bsky.social for more

FAA has issued MASSIVE temporary flight restriction which prohibits drones (i.e., photography) over Chicago. They did similar around federal buildings in Los Angeles since June protests, but really no comparison... Chicago's TFR covers 900x more area than ones in LA! 🧵👇 tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...

With zero time for crowd to clear, Bovino orders people back. Tells them it's their one is warning. Within seconds, feds attack protesters. ISP troopers assist ICE and BP with crowd control. BP tackles and arrests.

NEW — A lot happened today. • Multiple protesters were arrested outside the ICE “processing” facility in Broadview. • Chicago Ald. Jesse Fuentes was handcuffed and detained by ICE agents inside a hospital ER. thetriibe.com/2025/10/illi...

In the past 4 weeks in Chicago, ICE/CBP have snatched hundreds of people off the streets & homes, shot & killed a single-father in his car, smashed & abandoned countless cars, and deployed chemical munitions at protesters, journalists, & now on public streets. Today they cuffed an alderperson.

By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

I just left my last Blaine Elementary LSC meeting. It is important for me to work locally in addition to federally, and I’m so proud to have served as a community member for the past three years. I learned so much from the dedicated parents, teachers, principal, and student reps. #weareblaine

1. RIF’d almost *all* of NCES 2. Relied on other departments to get new NAEP release out - and it was still late (due June/July) [transfer of function] 3. McMahon approved waivers for 8+ positions to meet Congressional mandates for 2026 & 2028. Positions posted match those whom were RIF’d

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

ED RIFs nearly all of NCES *including NAEP* and are now looking to hire? at GS-14 no less? make 👏 it 👏 make 👏 sense 👏 www.usajobs.gov/Search/Resul...

The House FY26 budget bill for ED (which still would exist) eliminates work-study, SEOG, and adult education funds, flat funds TRIO and GEAR UP, and includes a bunch of policy riders on culture war items. Expect a series of continuing resolutions and possibly a government shutdown before December.

thank you Peggy, Sheria, Denise, Kissy for your service “Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first… And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Proudly part of the CD-ROM era 😂 I remember the collective excitement of getting new NCES restricted-use data for our secure data room at Notre Dame. I also received CDs of ED’s public-use Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) for my dissertation - which I might still have, somewhere

Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods,

➡️ New webinar on NSF EDU funding Have questions about this new solicitation? Or about other NSF funding for research on STEM learning? Ask and hear from NSF program officers next Thursday. Sept 4, 1:00-2:30 pm ET. Register here: nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

grief. my former colleagues and I have talked about it a lot: the loss of our jobs, questions about the futures our careers, short- and long-term impacts on public education. what will be rebuilt and how can it best be reimagined?

grateful for @jillbarshay.bsky.social’s continued coverage. as I wrote last week, this process usually takes longer to include much-needed stakeholder input and training. combined with the lack of question detail ED provided, data quality will take a big, big hit.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

public comment for new IPEDS admissions data collection opens August 15. See what’s proposed: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15536.pdf

if ED wants to ensure “race-based preferences are not used in university admissions processes” and “meritocracy and excellence once again characterize American higher education” … collect additional data on legacy status, at least by race/ethnicity

more coverage on new IPEDS requirements. to sum up: race/ethnicity and gender will be required for applicants, admitted students, and those enrolling. details on stand. test scores, GPAs and “other applicant characteristics” are unclear… www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

david rose grew up in our community. his mom was an icu nurse at emory. his wife is pregnant and he had two kids. please share this & help if you can.

Via @claitusis.bsky.social - 5 open positions for the National Assessment Governing Board #NAEP. Looking for curriculum specialists, 4th or 8th grade teachers, HS principals, or parent leaders: nominate yourself or others! #EduSky #EdChat #K12 For more info: www.nagb.gov/about-us/joi...

"this cancel-then-revive whiplash has already forced states and contractors to scramble, burning scarce time and taxpayer dollars that could have gone toward students." www.the74million.org/article/if-t...

we have been screaming about the threat to federal statistics for months. alongside firing the BLS Commissioner, today the administration RIF’d nearly all of the National Center for Education Statistics - the second oldest statistical agency

Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:

in the middle of summer programming and with the beginning of the school year around the corner

I led the Digest at NCES, and I’m so happy to see this getting more coverage. Digest provides nearly all the underlying data for COE and also other reports, like Indicators of School Crime and Safety. It’s used for policy, research, grant making, journalism, and so much more.

Thread in the am but if you want the main takeaway: The 2024 Digest of Education Statistics (under the current administration) includes just 27 tables by the (Congressionally mandated) deadline—far fewer than the nearly 270, on average, published in prior years www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Lawmakers will need to decide whether this new rolling report, which essentially says, "stay tuned, we're working on it," fulfills the obligation of producing an annual report on the condition of education in the nation by June 1. (9/9)

It published sparse "highlights" on 5 topics, such as public school enrollment. But a closer looks shows that half of the 9 tables are old, still to be updated, or "coming soon." (7/9)

2025 was the first time ED missed the June 1 deadline, which was established in 2002. ies.ed.gov/ies/2025/01/... And this report dates back almost 160 years, when the federal government began tracking education data. nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di... (4/9)

This is a nonpartisan statistics report, counting the number of students, college graduates, teachers, etc. It bundles together and explains all the data and surveys that the National Center for Education Statistics collects during the year. With charts! (3/9)

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

I would *love* to see any and all examples for Digest and NCES data in general. We used democratizingdata.ai to monitor, along with user requests and stakeholder conversations, but I know there are more!

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

ED just received official RIF notices.

all research arms of the department were fired - NCES, NCEE, NCER. centers that collect data to monitor and improve education, directly support states in improvement, and more.

BREAKING: The Department of Education prepares to lay off over 1,300 employees as President Trump vows to wind the agency down.

and collects critical data to monitor and improve the education system!

Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts The National Center for Education Statistics is a relatively obscure federal agency, but its mission – to collect data on the state of education – affects every public school in the country. Now, this work is under threat because of cuts by…

Breaking story early this evening, NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...