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AERA submitted a comment urging the Internal Revenue Service to withdraw the proposed rule, “Racial Nondiscrimination in Private Schools,” with concerns about potential downstream effects on education research conducted by faculty at private institutions of higher education that develop and examine evidence-based solutions to address racial disparities in education. (November 3, 2026)
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AERA submitted a comment on the proposed updates to the 2030 Decennial Census, urging the withdrawal of the proposed rule and noting the potential impacts on data accuracy and integrity to the Decennial Census and related federal statistical collections. (November 2, 2026)
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AERA joined more than 200 organizations on a comment led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposing the proposed updates to the 2030 Decennial Census on residence criteria and removal of demographic questions from future censuses and urging the withdrawal of the proposed rule. (November 2, 2026)
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AERA submitted a comment on the proposal by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics to reinstate the National Training, Education, and Workforce Survey (NTEWS) and consolidate the National Survey of College Graduates and Survey of Doctorate Recipients into the NTEWS. (October 27, 2026)
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AERA submitted a comment urging NIH to maintain the current practice of providing impact scores and percentile rankings to grant applicants to preserve transparency and to provide contextual information for grant applicants to submit future NIH proposals. (October 13, 2026)
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AERA led a comment joined by 34 organizations representing the Friends of the Institute of Education Sciences coalition in response to the proposed updates to the Education Department General Administrative Regulations that guide the Department’s grantmaking. (September 23, 2026)
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AERA signed a Census Project letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick expressing concerns about an indefinite delay in the release of data from the American Community Survey (ACS) that the Census Bureau announced on August 4, 2026. (September 4, 2026)
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AERA submitted comments to the National Science Foundation urging a delay of implementing proposed updates to the NSF Proposal/Award Information Guidance on Financial Assistance until the proposed White House Office of Management and Budget Regulation for Financial Assistance is final. (August 24, 2026)
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AERA submitted comments in response to a Request for Information from the National Institutes of Health seeking input into future NIH efforts to measure and reward scientific impact. (August 19, 2026)
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AERA joined 82 organizations on a letter to House and Senate Appropriations leaders to urge Congress to stop the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from implementing its proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance, or any substantially similar policy. (July 30, 2026)
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