The Friends of Institute of Education Sciences, a coalition of more than 40 higher education organizations and universities including AAU, sent a letter asking congressional appropriators to include $844.1 million for IES as part of a final FY23 appropriations agreement. The letter notes that this level of funding “would help restore a decade of lost purchasing power” that has limited the institute’s ability “to fully fund emerging research areas, scale up promising interventions, and leverage research findings for evidence-based practice.”