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This letter urges Congress to support FY 2025 funding for IES’s Accelerate, Transform, and Scale (ATS) Initiative, advocating for $57.2 million. It highlights the need for transformative education R&D to address pandemic-related learning loss, close achievement gaps, and drive innovation, modeled after successful initiatives in other sectors.
This April 2024 letter from ALI urges Congress to support the President’s FY2025 budget request of $52.7 million for IES’s Accelerate, Transform, and Scale (ATS) Initiative, emphasizing how this DARPA-inspired program would boost education R&D investment beyond its current 0.44% of the Education Department’s budget, helping address pandemic learning loss and chronic achievement gaps.
ALI conducts advocacy work thanks to financial support from the Walton Education Coalition (WEC).