On October 5, 2026, the National Academy of Education (NAEd) urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw its proposed rule, “Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs” (Docket No. ACF-2026-0595). The rule would strip away the...
In October 2025, the NAEd submitted a formal response objecting to the U.S. Department of Education’s proposal to no longer require states to report “Significant Disproportionality” data or alterations to their methodologies for calculating such data pursuant to the...
