February 23, 2026

The Honorable Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201

Re: Restructuring of the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation at the Administration for Children and Families

Dear Secretary Kennedy:

The undersigned organizations, research institutions, companies, and individuals write to express our deep concern regarding the decision to drastically restructure and effectively dismantle the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). As detailed in the February 13, 2026 joint statement from the Data Foundation and Results for America, this decision threatens to destroy one of the federal government's most effective and respected evaluation units. OPRE is an office that has served administrations of both parties for decades by producing rigorous, independent evidence on programs that serve millions of America's children and families.

We are particularly troubled that this sweeping change was made without meaningful consultation with key stakeholders—including Congress, the data, research and evaluation community, state and local government partners, and the organizations and practitioners who rely on OPRE's work to deliver effective services. A decision of this magnitude, affecting an office with decades of institutional knowledge and hundreds of ongoing research and evaluation projects, warrants a deliberative process that engages those who depend on OPRE's evidence and those who fund its activities through congressional appropriations. 

OPRE has been a cornerstone of America's human services evidence infrastructure. Its research portfolio spans some of the most consequential programs in the federal government, including Head Start, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), child welfare services, and child care. OPRE's work has enabled policymakers, practitioners, and communities to understand what works, for whom, and under what conditions. This is exactly the kind of information necessary to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent effectively and that families receive the help they need.

Under this restructuring, we expect only mandated research will continue—and even that work will now require direct approval from political appointees, compromising the scientific independence that gives evaluation findings their credibility and utility. This means years of ongoing studies, taxpayer-funded data collection efforts, and research partnerships will likely be abandoned—in many cases just as they were poised to deliver findings. Notably, congressional appropriations for FY 2026 largely supported OPRE's functions as written, raising serious questions about whether this restructuring is consistent with congressional intent.

This decision is also inconsistent with the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, signed into law by President Trump in 2019, which established a framework for strengthening—not weakening—the federal government's capacity to build and use evidence. The Evidence Act reflects a bipartisan commitment to ensuring that agencies have the infrastructure, leadership, and resources needed to evaluate programs and inform decisions with the best available evidence.

We respectfully urge you to:

1. Immediately halt the restructuring of OPRE and preserve its existing research and evaluation functions, staff, and vendor relationships during a meaningful review period.
2. Engage in transparent consultation with Congress, the research community, state and local partners, and other stakeholders before making structural changes to an office of this significance.
3. Ensure that all ongoing research and evaluation projects are allowed to reach completion so that the American public receives the findings their tax dollars have funded.
4. Uphold the evidence-building principles and institutional roles established by the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, including the independence of evaluation activities from political interference.

The signatories to this letter represent a broad coalition of organizations and individuals who have relied on, contributed to, and benefited from OPRE's work over many years. We include research firms that have partnered with OPRE to conduct rigorous evaluations, nonprofits that use OPRE's findings to improve services for families, state and local agencies that depend on OPRE's evidence to design effective programs, and individual researchers and practitioners who have dedicated their careers to building evidence that improves lives. We are united in our belief that evidence-informed policymaking is essential to a government that works for the American people.

We stand ready to work with the Department, the Administration, and Congress to ensure that the federal government maintains the evaluation capacity it needs to serve children and families effectively. We urge you to reconsider this decision before irreversible damage is done.

Sincerely, 

Organizations

• ABC Parenting Institute
• Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
• Addiction Science Defense Network
• Advance Illinois
• AdvancED Consulting, LLC
• Allies for Children 
• Alluvial Learning Strategies 
• America Forward
• American Association for Public Opinion Research
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
• American Educational Research Association
• American Evaluation Association
• American Statistical Association
• Arete Data Labs
• Artichoke Evaluation, LLC
• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
• Association of Population Centers 
• Association of Public Data Users
• Aster Policy Analytics
• Beyond Measure, LLC
• Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development 
• Bowman Performance Consulting
• California Budget & Policy Center
• Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. 
• Center for Employment Studies
• Center for Law and Social Policy
• Center for Open Data Enterprise
• Center for the Study of Social Policy
• Child Health Partnership
• Children First (PA)
• Children's Aid
• Civic Leaders for Illinois Children
• Coalition for a Healthier Frederick County
• Coco Canary Consulting
• Collaborative Solutions Consulting
• Community Endeavors Foundation
• Community Research Solutions
• Consortium of Social Science Associations 
• Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
• Data Foundation
• Data Quality Campaign
• Data Works, Inc
• dataindex.us
• EDGE Partners
• Education Law Services 
• Educational Methods Group, LLC
• Evaluation Plus
• Evaluation Thought Partners, LLC
• Families USA
• Family Connects International
• Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 
• First Up
• Foundation for Child Development 
• Free Government Information
• Gingko Leaf Writing & Consulting
• Good Science Project
• Government Information Watch
• Gregson Consulting, LLC
• HealthConnect One
• Healthy Families America
• Help Me Grow National Center
• HIPPY US
• Horizons for Homeless Children
• ICPSR, The Data Consortium
• Illinois Action for Children
• Illinois Head Start Association
• Inclusion Matters by Shane's Inspiration
• InnovateEDU
• Institute for Child Success
• Intention 2 Impact, Inc.
• J. Solomon Consulting, LLC
• J. Torres Consulting
• JDF Research
• Kaptivate 
• KEL Advising
• Kids Forward 
• Lopez Education
• Lotus Early Learning
• Massachusetts Head Start Association
• MDC, Inc.
• Mighty Crow
• Minnesota Coalition for Family Home Visiting
• Minnesota Prenatal to Three Coalition
• Morton Insight Group
• National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• National Council on Family Relations
• National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
• National Partnership for Women & Families
• National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
• National Women's Law Center Action Fund
• New Moms
• Next Interior
• Nicholas County Empowerment Corporation 
• Nitamising Gimashkikinaan Our First Medicine
• NRHA Parents as Teachers
• ODW Consulting
• Ozark Area Community Action Corporation
• ParentChild+
• Parents as Teachers National Center
• Peace-Work
• Pennsylvania Child Care Association
• Pennsylvania Head Start Association
• PLACE, LLC
• Population Association of America 
• Prevent Child Abuse America
• Prevent Child Abuse Illinois
• Program and Policy Insight, LLC
• Project Evident
• Public Advocacy for Kids
• Public Profit
• Research Allies for Lifelong Learning
• Results for America
• Seedlings to Sunflowers Non profit child care and family center 
• Shared Services Leadership Coalition 
• Smart Sitting
• Smart Start of Mecklenburg County
• Society for Prevention Research
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
• Strategies for Children
• TEAM for West Virginia Children
• TERSHA LLC 
• The Nanny Network, LLC
• Third Sector
• Thrive Nonprofit Solutions
• TLC Family Care
• TOOTRiS 
• True North Evaluation
• Two Gems Consulting Services 
• Two Rivers Head Start Agency
• UBUNTU Research and Evaluation
• UnidosUS
• Vehicles for Change
• Vincent Evaluation Consulting, LLC 
• Voices for Utah Children.
• Washington Evaluators 
• Washington State Association of Head Start and ECEAP 
• Wisconsin Head Start Association
• ZERO TO THREE 

Individuals 

• Aaron Gottlieb
• Abby Copeman Petig, Ph.D.
• Abby Foy
• Abigail Girardot, Program Evaluation and Data Analyst
• Adam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation
• Adriana Ariza, Applied Developmental Psychologist
• Alan J. Hawkins, Vice-chair, National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education
• Alana Landey
• Alberto Ramirez, Head Start advocate
• Alex Jauregui-Dusseau
• Alexa Romberg, Former Deputy Branch Chief, National Institutes of Health, Signer of the Bethesda Declaration
• Ali Sillas, LCSW, Director of Youth Behavioral Health and Wellbeing, Future Focused Education
• Alida Bouris, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
• Alisa J. Velonis, Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health
• Alison Hooper
• Alison LaRocca, Owner + Principal, Luminary Evaluation
• Alison Meadow
• Alison Place, Early Education Faculty, Elgin Community College
• Alison Wishard Guerra, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
• Alissa L. Jones, Associate Director of Operations, Wilder Research
• Allen Buxton, Statistician, Children's Oncology Group
• Allie Kallmann Wegner, Senior Researcher
• Allison Burns
• Allison Dymnicki, Principal Researcher, Abt Global
• Allison Friedman, Associate Research Professor, Rutgers University
• Allison Sidle Fuligni, Professor, Department of Child and Family Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
• Amanda Prokasky, Senior Research Specialist
• Amanda Stein, Vice President, Research & Evaluation
• Amber Vennum
• Amy Kerr
• Amy Laurent, Global Health Researcher
• Andrew Burwick, Independent consultant (formerly Senior Researcher, Mathematica)
• Andrew McGee, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate
• Andy Weiss
• Angela Deao, B.S. Psychology Science
• Anjin Singh
• Ann Marie Castleman
• Anna Abella, Research Professor and Evaluator
• Anna Martin, Director of Inquiry, Radicle Development
• Anne Byrne, Research and Evaluation Supervisor, State Government
• Anne Fletcher, Division Director, Program Evaluation Division
• Anne K LaFond, Assistant Professor, Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• Anne M. Wells, Ph.D.
• Anne Martin, Data Manager, Georgetown University
• Anne Partika
• Annie Buonaspina, Program Evaluator
• Anusha, Independent Consultant, Independent LLC
• April R. Vollmer, Graduate Student, Wayne State University
• April Wilson, VP of Research
• Ari Stillman, Evaluator
• Arnulfo C Alatorre
• Arturo Garcia, MPH, Senior Director, Evaluation
• Ashley Cairns, Managing Director, Keywell.ai
• Ashley Fraser, Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
• Ashley Munger, Professor, Cal State LA
• Audra Baca
• Audrey Cooper, Director, UNM Evaluation Lab
• Audrey Mirsky-Ashby
• Austin Hanna, Capital Planner
• Ben Miyamoto
• Benjamin de Haan, Associate Dean, University of Washington, School of Social Work
• Benjamin Kennedy
• Bernardette J. Pinetta, Assistant Professor
• Beth L. Green, Ph.D., Director of Early Childhood & Family Support Research (retired), Portland State University
• Beth Savitzky
• Blake Glatley, Graduate Student, University of Michigan
• Blanca Guillen-Woods, Evaluator
• BRAD COUSINS, Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa
• Brenda Jones Harden, Professor
• Brenda Mann, ECS
• Brett Vaughn Brown, Retired (formerly senior researcher, OPRE), Retired
• Brian Gold
• Brian Graham Dates, Evaluation Consultant, Self-employed
• Brian Knudsen
• Brian Simmons
• Brian T. Yates, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington, DC
• Briana Ermanni
• Briana Lopez
• Brianna Birchett, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Fellow, Integrate Health
• Bridget Scallen
• Bridgid Chanen, Research and Evaluation Associate, Evaluation Plus
• Brita Dallmann, Program Analyst, DHS
• Brittany Creel, Senior Analyst
• Brooke Epstein
• Bryan A. Evans, CEO, The Father Center of New Jersey
• Cailin O'Connor, Principal, Cailin O'Connor Consulting
• Caitlin Lombardi
• Cara L. Kelly
• Carlomagno Panlilio
• Carlos Mariani Rosa, Exec director, MnEEP
• Carol Emig, Retired President, Child Trends
• Carollee Howes, Professor emerita
• Carolyn Love, Chaplain, Endeavor Health
• Carolyn O’Brien, Retired
• Casey Cox, Principal Client Consultant
• Cassandra Johnson
• Catherine Brown
• Catherine C Ayoub, Director of Research & Evaluation, Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Boston Children’s Hospital
• Catherine E. Brawner, President, Research Triangle Educational Consultants
• Cecilia Vaughn-Guy Ph.D.
• Chad Green, Program Evaluation Analyst, Loudoun County Public Schools
• Charles Coleman
• Charles J Rothwell, Former Director, National Center for Health Statistics (retired)
• Charlotte Will
• Chelsea Wesner, Public Health Researcher
• Chere Gibson, Data/Evaluation Manager
• Cheri A. Vogel, Principal Researcher (Retired), Mathematica
• Cheri Fancsali
• Cheryl Thomas, Principal, The Kester Group, Grant Evaluators
• Ching-I Chen
• Chrissy Weeks, Executive Director, DC127
• Christa Williford, Researcher
• Christina Stephens Baylor
• Christine Bauer, Early Childhood Initiatives Specialist, Department of Human Services
• Christine Heflin, Retired Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce, Independent Consultant
• Christine Ross
• Christine Visher, Professor Emerita, University of Delaware
• Christopher Celentano
• Christopher Huynh
• Christopher Pic
• Christopher R. Bollinger
• Christopher Steven Marcum, Open Science Advocate, Senior Fellow, Data Foundation
• Ciara C. Knight, Ph.D., Senior Evaluation Officer
• Cindy Lowe
• Cindy Lu
• Cissie Lam
• Claire DuVall
• Claire Fontaine, Senior Evaluation Project Manager, Via Evaluation
• Claire Vallotton, Professor, Michigan State University
• Clifford Cook, Data Consultant 
• Colleen Graber
• Colleen K. Vesely, Associate Professor, George Mason University
• Corey Vestal
• Corinne Alfeld
• Courtney Veroneau, Deputy Director, For All Families Oregon
• Craig Van Vliet, Statistician
• Cristian Avila, Program Analyst
• Crystal Garcia, Research Consultant
• Curtis Miller, Research assistant professor, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico
• Cynthia Riggall, Research Analyst, CCRC
• D Rebecca Prevots
• Dale Alan Pahl
• Dana Linnell
• Dana Schultz, Senior Policy Researcher, formerly of RAND
• Dane Rivas-Koehl
• Dania Straughan, Program Manager
• Daniel Kasprzyk
• Daniela Schroeter, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
• Danielle Mercuri
• Daphna Bassok, Professor of Education and Public Policy
• Darcey Merritt, Professor, University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
• David L. Olds, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• David McCabe
• David Schiopota, Data Analyst, Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky
• Dax Weaver, President, Health-Tech Consultants
• Debashis Ghosh, Professor, University of Colorado
• Deborah F. Perry, Ph.D., Research Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University
• Deborah Rivas-Drake
• Deborah Wasserman, Ph.D., Principal Consultant, Program Evaluation & Research Solutions
• Debra Berke, Director, Wilmington University
• Debra Middleton
• Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Child and Family Studies, Berea College
• Deena Schwartz
• Deena Shariq, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland College Park
• Demi Siskind
• Denise Callahan
• Denise L. Baer, Ph.D., Scholar and Evaluation Expert
• Denise Purcell
• Diana Lemos
• Dianna Tran
• Dionne Dobbins, VP, Research and Evaluation, Start Early
• Donna Mertens
• Douglas Landsittel, Professor and Chair of Biostatistics, University at Buffalo
• Douglas Steiger, Principal, DSteiger Consulting
• Dr. Alyn M. Gamble, STEM Librarian, Northeastern University
• Dr. Angela Grant, Assistant Director of Information Systems, Kansas City Kansas Public Schools
• Dr. Angelica Thompson
• Dr. Chiahemba Moses, Clinical Psychologist, Benue State University Teaching Hospital Makurdi
• Dr. Diane Henshel, Associate Professor, Indiana University
• Dr. Emilie Smith
• Dr. Gregory D. Greenman II
• Dr. Jacquelyn Gross, Research Associate and principal investigator, Center for Early Childhood Education and Intervention
• Dr. Jessica Miguel, Senior Researcher, Cradle to Career Policy Institute
• Dr. Julie Leis, Senior Research Associate
• Dr. Kelly Robertson, Principal Research Associate, The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University
• Dr. Lauren Reagan
• Dr. Leslie A. Fierro, Evaluation Professor, McGill University
• Dr. Mary Isaac, Program Director, AAUW California Tech Trek
• Dr. Michelle Sloper, Professor of Evaluation Practice, Claremont Graduate University
• Dr. Moya L. Alfonso, Director and Professor
• Dr. Shaneen Moore
• Dr. Shannon Snapp, Associate Professor in Psychology, California State University, Monterey Bay
• Dr. Susan X. Ogletree, Director of the Center for Evaluation, Keystone Evaluation and Research Services
• Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel, Executive Director, Society for Research in Child Development
• Edward Condon, Executive Director, Region 9 Head Start Association
• Eghonghon Imarenezor, Research Associate
• Elaine Miller, Research and Evaluation Consultant
• Elena Polush, Independent Researcher/Evaluator
• Elham Ali
• Elham Mehdizadeh
• Eli Pessar
• Elisabeth Larson
• Elizabeth C Rudd, Sociologist
• Elizabeth Danielle Roberts
• Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Professor, University of Delaware
• Elizabeth Ginexi, Research Scientist
• Elizabeth Rigby, Associate Professor, George Washington University
• Elizabeth Sherwin
• Ellen Hertzmark
• Ellen Pinderhughes, Professor, Tufts University
• Emilia Endean, Board Certified Behavior Analyst/Special Education
• Emily Colo, Evaluator, Minnesota Department of Education
• Emily Cope
• Emily Fayram
• Emily Guerra
• Emily Ross, Senior Researcher, Early Childhood Solutions
• Emily Trundle
• Emma Pascarella, educator
• Emma Wells, Research Associate
• Eric Williamson, Director of Data and Evaluation, Reading Assist
• Erica Phillips, Executive Director, National Association for Family Child Care
• Erica Ramberg
• Erika Slade, Owner, E-Nanny
• Erin Austin
• Erin Christine Albrecht
• Erin Cooper, Principal Consultant, Erin Cooper Consulting, LLC
• Erin Geary
• Erin Lomax, Policy Researcher
• Erin McCarthy
• Esther Nolton
• Farnoosh Hashemian, Senior Evaluation Officer, Self
• Fassou Bienvenu Loua, Evaluation Expert, Freelance
• Fatima Zahra
• Fayssal Ali, Data Analyst, ACF/OCDO
• Flora Farago, Associate Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University
• Fred Wulczyn, Research Fellow, Director, Center for State Child Welfare Data, Chapin Hall
• Genene Nicole Colter
• George Gabel, Child Welfare Impact Advisor
• Gilda Collazo
• Gillian Stauch, Early childhood educator
• Gina L Fedock, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
• Gina Roussos, Bethesda Declaration Signer
• Ginger L Elliott-Teague, Senior Education Researcher, SRI
• Godsee Joy
• Grace R Granillo, Assistant Director of Org Learning & Research, Future Focused Education
• Gregory Paul Ekey, Director, Data Analytics, City Year
• Gretchen Biesecker
• Hannah Betesh, Monitoring and Evaluation Supervisor, City of Oakland
• Hannah Thomas, Principal Associate, Abt Global
• Hansel Burley, Professor of Public Administration, University of New Mexico
• Harold Pollack, Helen Ross Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
• Heather L Menne, Associate Professor
• Heather Wayson Wilson, Evaluation Specialist
• Helen Apthorp, Retired education researcher
• Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
• Hildie
• Hiram E. Fitzgerald, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
• Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Professor, New York University
• Hoben Thomas, professor em., Penn State University
• Holly E. Brophy-Herb, Professor
• Holly Lewandowski, President, Evaluation for Change, Inc.
• Hugh Gilbert Peach, President, H. Gil Peach & Associates, LLC
• Iheoma U. Iruka, Professor
• Isabel Algrant, Asst. Director of Training & Technical Assistance, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
• Ivy Chang, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• J Vergara, Research Analyst, Start Early
• Jacob Creel, Compliance Leader, ADP Inc.
• James P Ziliak, Professor, University of Kentucky
• James S. Sass, Retired Evaluator
• James T. Hubbell, Ph.D.
• Jamie Bowen
• Jane Leer, Assistant Professor, San Diego state university
• Janet Eisenhauer
• Jared Smith
• Jason Downer, Professor, University of Virginia
• Jason Fields, Senior Researcher for Demographic Programs, U.S. Census Bureau (retired)
• Jay Wade, Director of Strategy & Impact, Start Early
• Jean Ispa, Professor Emerita, University of Missouri
• Jean Knab, Retired
• Jeannie Chaffin
• Jeff Kramer, Programs Manager, Action for Children
• Jeffrey H. Forster, Medical editor & writer, editorial consultant on health care issues, Self-employed
• Jenna Norton, Bethesda Declaration Organizer and Signer
• Jenna Shelton, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School of Social Work
• Jenna Winocur, Co-Founder & CEO, Pyxie
• Jennie Romich, Professor, University of Washington
• Jennifer Appleton Gootman, Retired, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
• Jennifer Bellamy, Professor
• Jennifer Bowser Gerst, Education Advisor, Self-Employed
• Jennifer Brooks, Consultant
• Jennifer Freeman
• Jennifer Hutain, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Team Rubicon
• Jennifer Kamorowski
• Jennifer Lynn Martin, Research Associate
• Jennifer Villalobos, Professor and Evaluator, Claremont Graduate University
• Jennifer Wagner, Teacher
• Jess Harding, Senior Researcher, Mathematica
• Jessa Haines, Cybersecurity Analyst, ORAU
• Jessica Barnes-Najor, Director for Community Partnerships
• Jessica Fish, Professor, University of Illinois
• Jessica S. Saucedo, Ph.D., Research Specialist
• Jessica Tufte, Director of Evaluation & Analytics, CCNY, Inc.
• Jessie Piper, Assistant Professor, Washburn University
• Jill Trei
• Joan K Deming
• Joan LaFrance, President, Mekinak Consulting
• JoAnn Robinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut
• Johanna Jones
• John Buckstead
• John Dziak, University of Michigan
• John L. Czajka, Retired/Consultant
• John M Abowd, Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, Statistics and Data Science Emeritus, Cornell University and U.S. Census Bureau (retired)
• John Truzzolino
• Jonathan Larson, Director of Training and Education, Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Jordan Engel, Research Analyst
• Jordan Shuler, Doctoral Candidate
• Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Assistant Research Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
• Jose-Luis Palma, CEO, Center for Research on Health and Demography
• Joseph A. Yacura, Founder, International Association for Data Quality, Governance & Analytics
• Josephine Imbimbo, Director, Evaluation Savvy
• Judah Viola, Professor, National Louis University
• Judith Jerald, Former National Early Head Start Coordinator
• Julia Brown, Senior Data Scientist
• Julia Henly, Professor
• Julia Hodum
• Juliana Keeney
• Julie Omodio-Griess, adjunct professor, University of South Florida
• Juliet Bromer, Research Professor, Erikson Institute
• Kaitlin Trexberg, Ph.D.
• Kaitlyn Mumma, Research Associate
• Kaley Martin
• Kara Langin
• Kara Robinson, APN
• Kara Ulmen, Sr. Research Analyst
• Karah Lothian
• Karen H Anthony, Retired ACF Employee
• Kari Greene
• Karin Martinson
• Karin Stengle
• Karina Martínez
• Katharina Hammler, Chief of Performance & Evaluation, County of San Diego
• Katharine G. Abraham, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
• Katherine A Tibbetts
• Katherine Aronson-Ensign
• Katherine Speirs
• Katherine Williams, University of California San Francisco
• Kathleen Allen
• Kathleen Doll, Partner & COO, Intention 2 Impact
• Kathleen Louise Fayram, Retired
• Kathleen Mun, LICSW, Director of Practice Excellence, Plummer Youth Promise
• Kathryn E. Newcomer, School Director, The Trachtenberg School at the George Washington University
• Kathryn Lowerre, Evaluation Section Manager
• Kathryn Miller, Assistant Director, Head Start
• Kathryn O’Brien, Teacher
• Kathy Stack, Senior Policy Fellow, Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy
• Katie Beckmann, Ph.D., MPH, Director, Children and Families, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Katie Mervin, ECE Program Manager/Faculty, Santa Barbara County Education Office/Cuesta College
• Katy Spray, MN MECSH Coordinator, Minnesota Department of Health
• Kayden Sean Stockdale, Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech
• Kayla Ablin, Donor relations associate previous evaluation specialist for MA MEICHV
• Kayla Miller
• Kayla Thompson, Evaluator
• Keisha Bentley-Edwards
• Kelly Cox-Gonzalez, Certified Prosthetist Orthotist, Hanger Clinic
• Kelly Escobar
• Kelly Minas
• Kelly Woodlock
• Kendelle Brown
• KENNETH TROSKE, Professor, University of Kentucky
• Kent Mitchell, Director for Policy, Society for Research in Child Development
• Keri-Nicole Dillman, Sr. Learning and Evaluation Consultant, Independent
• Kerri Wingert, Owner, Good Question Research & Evaluation, LLC
• Kevin Ferreira van Leer, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
• Kiira DeCoster, EA
• Kimberly A Spring
• Kimberly Boller, Adjunct Instructor, Rutgers University
• Kimberly Dash
• Kimberly T Konkel
• Krista Gurko, Early Intervention Service Coordinator
• Krista O'Connell, Research and Program Evaluation Specialist, FCPS
• Krista Woodward, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins
• Kristen Gardner-Volle, Senior Research & Evaluation Associate, Evaluation Plus
• Kristen Joyce
• Kristin Klopfenstein, Founding Executive Director, Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab, University of Denver
• Kristina Kastler, Evaluation and Learning Officer, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Kristina Rosinsky
• Kristyn VanDahm
• Krystal H. Lindsey, Founder, The EDvocate Group
• Kyle Cook
• Kylie Garber, Research Scientist
• Kyong-Ah Kwon, Professor at Public Research 1 University
• Lacey Peters, Professor of Early Childhood, Hunter College, CUNY
• Laquene Laisse
• Lara Meyer Triona, Research Associate, Education Insights Center
• Latrice Rollins
• Laura Anaya, Ph.D., Associate Director of Head Start and Early Childhood Services, Umatilla Morrow Head Start, Inc.
• Laura Arntson
• Laura Peck, Professor
• Lauren Bonine, Community Cultivator & Adjunct Faculty
• Lauren Salig, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Lauren Samuels
• Lauren Seward
• Lawrence Joseph Schweinhart, President Emeritus, HighScope Educational Research Foundation
• LB Wittenstein, Researcher
• Leah Gutierrez
• Leanett Reinoso, Doctoral Student, FIU
• Leanne Giordono
• Leanne Kallemeyn, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
• Leigh Newman
• Leigh Theriault, Data Analyst, Plummer Youth Promise
• Leisha Bundy
• Lenore M. Shepard
• Lieny Jeon, Associate Professor, University of Virginia
• Linda Animashaun
• Linda M. Callejas, Researcher/Professor
• Linda Mellgren, Retired, formerly OASPE/HHS
• Linda Xiong
• Lindsay Zajac
• Lindsey Gearin
• Lisa A. Lauxman, Ph.D., Consultant, Self-employed
• Lisa AM Meredith-Unrath, PDG B5 Manager, BCIU 14/OCDEL
• Lisa Burton, Ph.D., Program Evaluation Manager, Mayo Clinic
• Lisa Creel, IT
• Lisa D Harnar, Head Start Director, ESCSWA
• Lisa Frantzen
• Lisa Levitt
• Lisa M Frehill, Retired
• Lisa M. Lopez, Ph.D.
• Lisa R. Fortuna, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry
• Lisa Wilson, Professor, University
• Logan Drake, Evaluation Specialist
• Lorey Wheeler, Research professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Lori A Roggman, Professor, Utah State University
• Lori Connors-Tadros, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for early education research
• Lori Skibbe, Professor
• Loria Kim
• Lowell Hurst, Former Mayor, Councilman Emeritus, City of Watsonville
• Lucas Skorczeski
• Lucia Cazares, Evaluation Manager, Children’s council
• Lynda Martino, Retired
• Lynette Smith
• Margaret Gillis, Researcher
• Margaret Levenstein, Professor and ICPSR Director, University of Michigan
• Margaret Thomas, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago
• Margarita Azmitia, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Maria F Fernandez, Concerned citizen
• Maria Jose Lloréns
• Maria Ramos-Olazagasti, Research Scholar
• Mariappan Jawaharlal, AVP, Research and Sponsored programs
• Marie Camay
• Marie Thoma, Faculty
• Marina Myhre
• Marion McCoy, Social Science Analyst, Social Security Administration
• Marissa Schuh Gebert, Director of Monitoring & Evaluation
• Mark E. Courtney, Emeritus Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
• Mark J Fucello, (Retired) OPRE Director of the Division of Economic Independence
• Mark S. Innocenti, Research Associate Professor, Utah State University
• Marla Short, Executive Director, Richwood Tots To Teens
• Marla Y. Newman
• Marsha Basloe
• Mary Ann McCabe, Ph.D., ABPP, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Self-employed
• Mary Bruce Webb, Retired
• Mary Clare Semler, Clinician
• Mary Janevic, University of Michigan
• Mary Talbot
• Mason Kelly, Senior UX Researcher
• Matt Ronfeldt, Professor of Educational Studies
• Matthew A. Salomon
• Matthew Birnbaum
• Maureen Wilce, Evaluator, Wilce Consultations
• Maxine Jones, Retired
• Maxwell Korten
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CC: Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, HHS; Director, Office of Management and Budget; Chair and Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Chair and Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Finance; Chair and Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Chair and Ranking Member, House Committee on Education and the Workforce; Chair and Ranking Member, House Committee on Ways and Means; Chair and Ranking Member, House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies