国家教育统计中心（NCES）负责收集指导学习政策的关键数据，在Doge取消关键合同后遭到重创。随着阅读和数学成绩跌至过去25年来的最低点，美国现在用于理解和制定干预措施以应对这一令人担忧趋势的工具更少了。
National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after 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.
去年，特朗普政府对教育部采取了毁灭性打击，解雇了近一半员工，并允许所谓的“政府效率部”（Doge）取消近9亿美元的合同，一个鲜为人知的机构——国家教育统计中心（NCES）是受冲击最严重的机构之一。
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.