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NBC News Article Rating

Education Department prepares to lay off roughly half its workforce

  • Bias Rating

    2% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -21% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

16% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : The terminations at the Education Department also serve as a prelude to President Donald Trump's plan to shut down the cabinet-level agency, and raise questions about what will happen to enforcement of school civil rights laws and federal education funding.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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