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SCOOP: I got the full list of 89 programs that DOGE has canceled at the Education Department -- and the talking points DOGE gave staffers on how to argue the changes are really a good thing.

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https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1889382433650516282

This week, DOGE announced it canceled 89 contracts worth $881 million. Separately, DOGE also said it canceled 29 DEI training grants worth $101 million.

The 89 contracts had been agreed by the Dept’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) with outside vendors.

The IES aims to provide scientific backing for education practice — in other words, provide rigorous grounding for the way students are taught.

Here’s a list of the contracts, provided by a senior Education official.

"Pretty sloppy work by DOGE – no real justifications or coherent descriptions," the official said.

DOGE said a contractor was paid $1.5 million to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center"

Another helped students "interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power."

Here are DOGE’s talking points for ED staffers, in case legislators asked about these changes.

DOGE wants them to say: “These contracts support the education deep state who take millions of taxpayer funds with NO results for students.”

Some officials are refusing to put their names on the statement, or adding the name of the political appointee who provided the talking points instead.

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The contract list turned out blurry -- here's a clearer version