FY 2022 LHHS Testimony
Paul Schroeder, Executive Director
On May 19, 2021, COPAFS submitted testimony with specific funding requests for NCHS, NCES, and BLS to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. Read More.
Statement in Support of Anti-Racist Education
Paul Schroeder, Executive Director
On September 29, 2020, COPAFS endorsed a Statement in Support of Anti-Racist Education put out by the American Educational Research Association and The National Academy of Education. This statement is a response and repudiation of three administration efforts:
- to ban use of the 1619 Project by those teaching about race in U.S. schools ;
- the Office of Management and Budget’s September 4 directive to Executive Departments and Agencies to dictate what training about race, diversity, or equality can include (explicitly mandating the exclusion of a theoretical perspective that has led to important scientific research on systemic racism); and
- the U.S. Department of Education launching an investigation of Princeton University based on the contention that the university’s intention to reconsider its own potential biases or patterns of systemic racism means that prior assurances of non-bias constituted false statements, implicitly threatening the university’s federal funding.
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COPAFS Statement on the Executive Order Excluding Undocumented Immigrants from the 2020 Census Counts for Apportionment
Paul Schroeder, Executive Director
July 27, 2020 The Executive Memorandum1 seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment base following the 2020 census is unprecedented and threatens the accuracy of the count. A change in how Census data are used for apportionment will trigger significant congressional and legal debate. That discussion is separate from the active effort to conduct an accurate count. Continue Reading COPAFS Statement on the Executive Order Excluding Undocumented Immigrants from the 2020 Census Counts for Apportionment
COPAFS Statement on New COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting
Paul Schroeder, Executive Director
July 20, 2020 The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) takes issue with the recent directive1 from the White House to shift all reported hospital data on COVID-19 to the Department of Health and Human Services and leave the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) out of the reporting structure completely…. Continue Reading COPAFS Statement on New COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting
COPAFS Statement on Recent Census Appointments of Dr. Cogley and Mr. Korzeniewski
Paul Schroeder, Executive Director
July 7, 2020 The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) has a forty-year history of working to protect the objectivity, accuracy, and trustworthiness of the federal statistical system, including the Census Bureau. The recent Census Bureau appointments by President Trump’s administration of Nathaniel Cogley (Deputy Director of Policy) and Adam Korzeniewski (Advisor to Cogley) threaten these foundations….. Continue Reading COPAFS Statement on Recent Census Appointments of Dr. Cogley and Mr. Korzeniewski
Good Data for Good Government in the 21st Century
Presentation By John Thompson, Executive Director (2017-2018)
COPAFS was founded in 1981 to coordinate activities of a number of Associations, Organizations, and Businesses that rely on federal statistics•Our membership today both produces and consumes federal statistics in most government departments and scientific disciplines… Continue Reading Good Data for Good Government in the 21st Century