S. 5444: New Essential Education Discoveries Act of 2026

This bill would create a new federal education research and development center focused on developing and sharing new teaching methods, education technologies, and classroom interventions. The center would be responsible for identifying promising approaches, testing them, and helping spread effective practices to schools and educators.

The bill would also establish an advisory panel to help guide the center’s work and would provide funding for these activities.

In addition, the bill would expand grants for state longitudinal data systems, which are systems that track education information over time. The expanded grants would place more emphasis on:

• Connecting data from different education and workforce sources
• Protecting student privacy
• Making some data available to the public in usable form
• Improving reporting on education outcomes

Overall, the bill is designed to support research, innovation, and better use of education data at the state and federal levels.

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