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: at least $9.9 billion for the National Science Foundation
• Friends of IES: at least $900 million for the Institute of Education Sciences
• Friends of NICHD: $1.891 billion for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Testimony

• FY 2026 House Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee
• FY 2026 House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee
• FY 2026 Senate Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee
• FY 2026 Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee

As part of various coalitions, AERA seeks to increase federal investment in education research specifically and in the social and behavioral sciences broadly.

The pipelines through which federal research funding in education and the social and behavioral sciences include:

• Department of Education
  - Institute of Education Sciences
  
  
• National Science Foundation
  - Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate
  - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate
  
  
• National Institutes for Health
  - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)