Newsletter Archive
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How to Make the FEVS Better
September 11, 2025by Peter BonnerRead MoreThis is the second in a two-part series on the Administration’s decision to cancel the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. Review what we are losing because of the cancellation here.
Our first post explored how the FEVS, the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, helps improve efficiency, performance, and effectiveness of federal employees and the programs on which they serve. Cancelling FEVS in 2025 forgoes the opportunity to realize this tool’s benefits through the feedback loops on employee performance. Losing this data for 2025 hamstrings federal managers from making evidence-based decisions.
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Take Action! Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and More
September 08, 2025by Meghan MauryRead MoreCollection of the Week:
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). ED is proposing to add a new “Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement” (ACTS) to IPEDS. This component will be applicable to all four-year institutions who utilize selective college admissions, because according to the listing " these institutions have an elevated risk of noncompliance with the civil rights laws." Generally, data collected will include race and sex information about students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled, their GPA and admission test scores, and information about financial assistance provided to those students. In the first year, ED proposes to collect that data not only from the 25-26 academic year, but also from the five prior academic years.
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Take Action! Public Housing and More
September 08, 2025by Meghan MauryRead MorePublic housing: Allocation of Operating Funds under the Operating Fund Formula: Data Collection. This series of forms is used by Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to submit project level budget data annually to HUD field offices. In this notice, HUD is updating the certifications PHAs are required to make as a part of this process to include certifications that the PHAs will not use funds to "promote 'gender ideology' as defined in EO 14168," to violate civil rights protections, or to "fund or promote elective abortions, as required by EO 14182," and that it will follow "immigration restrictions and requirements, including eligibility and verification requirements" and many not use and funds in any way that would "facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration... [or] shield illegal aliens from deportation."
Comments due Sept. 22.Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. The Take Action! newsletter highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.
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Rapid Response Data Briefing: Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
September 03, 2025Read MoreThank you for registering for the Rapid Response Data Briefing: Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS). If you were unable to attend, you can watch a recording of the webinar here.
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Take Action! Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection and More
September 03, 2025by Meghan MauryRead MoreCollection of the Week:
Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). The CRDC collects data related to the civil rights laws' requirement that public local educational agencies (LEA) and elementary and secondary schools provide equal educational opportunity. In the 60-day notice on the CRDC, ED proposed several changes to the collection, including improving data collection on nonbinary students and race and ethnicity and adding additional collection elements on disability and bullying. In a more recent document, ED announced that it would discontinue the collection of nonbinary data, along with several other questions that include gender identity information, such as questions about bullying and harassment based on gender identity. However, changes to questions about race, ethnicity, and disability appear to be moving forward.
Comments due Sept. 8.