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Learn more about this effort to expand civic education in schools across the United States. Check out this bipartisan effort here.

The Civics Secures Democracy (CSD) Act [H.R.1814] [S.4384] creates grants for states and districts to support and expand access to U.S. history and civics to meet the needs of today’s students and our constitutional democracy.

The bill:

• Protects the health of our constitutional democracy by prioritizing American history and civics in our nation’s schools
• Reverses chronic underinvestment by providing funding to states and school districts to support quality history and civic education that informs and empowers students to participate in our constitutional democracy
• Encourages more frequent and robust administration of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in history and civics, providing rich data on student outcomes for teachers, school districts and states
• Supports the Prince Hall Fellowship Program to strengthen our history and civics teaching corps and diversify the educator pipeline

To read the full bill, click here.