Higher education advocates warned for months that hundreds of millions in federal funding for education research could expire Sept. 30 if the Education Department didn’t start sending it out the door.
In late June, some of them filed a lawsuit. They argued that while public records show the White House appeared to have released most of the IES funds in May, ED still had about $316 million “that have not been obligated, and for which IES has not publicly indicated any plans to obligate.” That's out of the $768 million Congress originally allocated to IES for fiscal year 2025, which the department had two years to spend down. (It also still remains unclear exactly how and when the White House released the money shown in the report.)
Now, IES Acting Director Matthew Soldner is saying the agency will spend all the remaining money Congress set aside for education research in “a timely manner,” according to court records released last week as part of the suit.
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