Policy Insider

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (CR) that will keep the federal government funded at Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 funding levels through December 11. Read more >

On Tuesday, Congress passed the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, which establishes 9-8-8 as an easy-to-remember, three-digit phone number to connect people in crisis to the National Suicide Hotline to receive life-saving resources. Read more >

This month, the National Center for Education Statistics released a snapshot of race and ethnicity of public school teachers in the United States, using data from the 2017–18 National Teacher and Principal Survey. Read more >

The Institute for Education Science (IES) released "Guides to Education Technologies," a new series of teaching supports developed by experts at the National Center for Special Education Research along with developers and researchers. Read more >

This week, the National COVID-19 School Response Dashboard—a national database that tracks schools’ responses to the pandemic—was released to allow the public to view a snapshot of COVID-related school conditions in their own communities and compare that data to other regions. Read more >