Topic: Data & Transparency

EdTrust Comment on IPEDS Data Collection

December 16, 2025 by EdTrust

EdTrust comments on the revised information collection request proposing to add the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey component to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

How Trump 2.0 Upended Education Research and Statistics in One Year

article-cropped December 03, 2025 by Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report

Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

Joint Comment opposing the Department’s proposal to remove the Significant Disproportionality data collection

October 22, 2025 by EdTrust

Eleven organizations share feedback opposing the U.S. Department of Education’s proposal to remove the Significant Disproportionality data collection from Section V of the Annual State Application under Part B of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Joint Comment on Redesigning IES

October 16, 2025 by EdTrust

Twelve organizations share feedback with the Department of Education regarding the redesign of the Institute for Education Sciences

EdTrust Comment on Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) Survey Proposal

October 14, 2025 by EdTrust

Letter submitted in response to the Department of Education’s (ED) proposed addition of the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey component to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

Chronic Absenteeism

October 09, 2025 by EdTrust

EdTrust created an interactive package designed to equip policymakers, advocates, and education leaders with policy analyses, guidance, and insight

Joint Comment to U.S. Department of Education on Their Proposed Changes to 2025-26 and 2027-28 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)

September 09, 2025 by EdTrust

35 organizations share feedback with the Department of Education on CRDC data collection

Trump’s Admissions Data Order Threatens to Roll Back Decades of Hard-Fought Progress

August 08, 2025 by EdTrust

EdTrust warns directive will weaponize transparency to attack diversity and equity in higher education

Columbia and Brown’s Agreements to Share Student Data with the Trump Administration Aids and Abets a Racist Agenda

August 05, 2025 by EdTrust

Statement from EdTrust President and CEO Denise Forte on Columbia and Brown’s agreements to share student data with the Trump administration