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In the News Introducing the Educating for Democracy Act of 2020 National Council for the Social Studies On September 17, 2020, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK), Ranking Member of that Subcommittee, introduced a bipartisan bill, the Educating for Democracy Act of 2020-2021, which would authorize $1 billion in federal-level investments in civic and history education. Read the Full Bill Summary This legislation would represent a massive investment in civic and history education nationwide. It would support new competitive grant programs for state and local education agencies, non-profit organizations, and higher education institutions to develop and expand curriculum, instructional resources, research, professional learning, teacher preparation in civic and history education. It would also require that the National A