Experimental studies are not commonly used in education funding research due to the ethical and practical challenges involved in manipulating funding levels for research purposes.

The primary goal of education funding research is to understand how different levels and types of funding affect student outcomes, such as academic achievement, graduation rates, and post-secondary success.

Policymakers are not directly involved in education funding research, although they may use the findings of such research to inform their policy decisions.

The main challenge in conducting education funding research is the difficulty in isolating the impact of funding from other factors that may also affect student outcomes, such as family background, school quality, and teacher effectiveness.

Greater collaboration between researchers and policymakers can help to ensure that research findings are used to inform policy decisions and that research priorities are aligned with the needs of policymakers.