AERA submitted comments on the revised information collection request for the 2026 National Assessment of Educational Progress, seeking an immediate solution to enable the restoration of CIPSEA confidentiality assurances. (June 16, 2025)

AERA submitted comments on the proposed rule from the Office of Personnel Management that would create a new Schedule Policy/Career job classification in the federal government, “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service.” (June 6, 2025)

In a letter, AERA and other education research leaders called on Congress to protect the nation’s education data, research infrastructure, and knowledge base, by safeguarding the IES and broader Education Department staff, leadership, and mission. (March 26, 2025)

AERA and 86 others organizations and individual researchers sent a letter to Congress elevating deep concerns regarding Institute of Education Sciences research and data collection cancellations. (March 10, 2025)

The science community, including AERA, sent a letter to Congress urging the Department of Education to reverse contract cancellations at the Institute of Education Statistics. (February 13, 2025)

AERA joined a large inter-disciplinary group in a letter calling upon Senate and House leaders to protect and preserve public access to federal data. (February 11, 2025)

More Comments and Letters

AERA Provides Comments on Proposed Updates to 2026 NAEP and EDFacts
AERA Highlights, June 2025

AERA Provides Comment on Proposed Schedule Policy/Career Designation, Urges Exemption of Federal Research Program Officers and Statistical Agency Staff
AERA Highlights, June 2025

Congress Begins Action on FY 2026 Appropriations, AERA Weighs in With Testimony
AERA Highlights, June 2025

FY 2026 Budget Request Includes Deep Cuts for Federal Research Agencies
AERA Highlights, June 2025

OSTP Issues Guidance for Implementing “Gold Standard Science” Executive Order
AERA Highlights, June 2025

National Institutes of Health Launches NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub
AERA Highlights, June 2025

Judge Blocks Dismantling of Education Department, Temporarily Reinstates Hundreds of Employees
AERA Highlights, May 2025

NSF Continues Grant Terminations as Layoffs and Closure of Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM Division Are on Hold
AERA Highlights, May 2025

Trump Administration Issues “Skinny” FY 2026 Budget Outline with Proposed Cuts for NSF, NIH
AERA Highlights, May 2025

President Trump Issues Executive Order on “Gold Standard Science”
AERA Highlights, May 2025

NIH Updates: Public Access Policy Implementation Deadline Moved Up, Leadership Changes for Individual Institutes
AERA Highlights, May 2025

AERA Highlights Priorities for FY 2026 Funding for Education Research and Statistics
AERA Highlights, April 2025

National Science Foundation Issues Statement on Priorities, Cancels Chunk of Ongoing Grants
AERA Highlights, April 2025

AERA Partnering with 11 Other Education Research Associations Calls on Congress to Save Education Research and Data
AERA Highlights, March 2025

AERA Urges Action on Use of NCES Restricted-Use Data Licenses
AERA Highlights, March 2025

Department of Education Initiates Reduction in Force with Significant Impact on IES Staffing
AERA Highlights, March 2025

FY 2025 Wraps Up with Full-Year Continuing Resolution with Uncertainty for Research and Statistics Support
AERA Highlights, March 2025

NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr Placed on Administrative Leave
AERA Highlights, February 2025

Broad Coalition Releases Vision for American Science and Technology (VAST)
AERA Highlights, February 2025

Biden Administration Issues Reports on Reducing Harassment in Federally Funded Research, Federal Evidence Agenda on Disability, Prior to Leaving Office
AERA Highlights, January 2025

NICHD Releases 2025 Strategic Plan
AERA Highlights, January 2025

119th Congress and Trump Administration Leadership Announced
AERA Highlights, January 2025

PECASE Awardees Announced; Includes Seven AERA Members
AERA Highlights, January 2025

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