Trump Wants To Dismantle the Education Department. What Would That Mean for Harvard? | News | The Harvard Crimson

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Since 2005, research projects led by Harvard faculty have received a total of nearly $60 million in grants from the IES, as well as funding for Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research.
53% : "We have a high concentration of elite higher education institutions, which seem to be particularly targeted by this administration," he added.
53% : The Institute of Education Sciences currently provides millions of dollars in grants and statistical data for research projects that focus on education-related issues.
47% : In addition to the contract cuts, the review of IES grant awards have also stopped -- impacting higher education research projects and training grants for doctoral students.
47% : "We actually had that discussion today," Trump said.
46% : But if the department is closed or reconfigured, the OCR's existing standards to determine discrimination could be left to the interpretation of individual states -- even as the standards take center stage into federal investigations of antisemitism on university campuses.
46% : " Cuts to IES funding comes amidst larger federal funding cuts to higher education -- prompting Harvard to freeze faculty hiring and reduce Ph.D admissions offers.
43% : As a part of these cuts, contracts with the IES' Regional Education Laboratories, which help education stakeholders apply and understand research findings, were terminated.
43% : Trump told reporters on March 6 that the student loan program "would be brought into either" the Department of the Treasury, the Small Business Administration, or the Department of Commerce.
40% : " Peterson, the government professor, said that he has not "seen any actions taken by the Trump administration that would affect" student loan and grant programs.
39% : Wong, the professor at Brown, said "we'll have to really worry about the next generation of strong education researchers that are being trained around the country in higher education.

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