President Trump's administration is intensifying efforts to close the U.S. Department of Education, evidenced by an executive order aimed at facilitating its shutdown. The Department announced drastic workforce reductions, with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) set to lose nearly all of its employees. Despite promises to preserve funding for critical programs such as Title I and REAP, the potential loss of expertise for determining school eligibility raises serious concerns. Experts warn that this could severely impact high-poverty and rural schools that rely on this funding for their survival.
"That will have an absolutely devastating impact," says Matthew Gardner Kelly, who studies the country's K-12 funding systems at the University of Washington.
"It's not just that loss of information, it's what will happen to a school district's budget in the absence of funds that can be allocated to high-poverty schools and rural areas."
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