AERA has joined the following statements and letters from its member coalitions on appropriations requests for agencies that support education research and statistics in FY 2025.

• Census Project: $2 billion for the Census Bureau
• Coalition for National Science Funding: $11.9 billion for the National Science Foundation (House | Senate)
• Friends of IES: at least $900 million for the Institute of Education Sciences
• Friends of Justice Research and Statistics: $135 million for the Research, Evaluation, and Statistics account within the Department of Justice budget, which includes at least $60 million for the National Institute of Justice and $75 million for the Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Friends of NICHD: $1.891 billion for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, proportional to Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research request for $51.3 billion for the National Institutes of Health
• Friends of NCHS: $220 million for the National Center for Health Statistics
• Gun Violence Prevention Research Roundtable: $35 million for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $25 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $1 million for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention
• Invest in What Works Coalition: investments to support evidence-based policymaking, including $900 million for the Institute of Education Sciences top line

Testimony

AERA public witness testimony will be available once submitted in May 2024.

Past AERA Funding Priorities