LEARN wrote the Chairs and Ranking Members of the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Committees overseeing funding for the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES), the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In these letters, LEARN advocated for increases in Fiscal Year 2021 funding for these key institutes, centers and foundations which support critical education research aimed at advancing scientific understanding of learning and development.
Specific funding requests in the letters include:
For IES, Research and Dissemination, $210 million
For NCSER, $61 million
For NSF’s Education and Human Resources Directorate, $1.010 billion
For NICHD, $1.67 billion
For NIHM, $2.19 billion
The letter regarding IES, NCSER, NICHD and NIMH funding can be accessed here: FY2021 LEARN Appropriations Letter. The letter pertaining to NSF funding can be accessed here: FY2021 LEARN CJS Appropriations Letter.