What's New for July 2024

IES Adds Virtual Office Hours and New Sessions to Assist Grant Applicants (July 17, 2024)
The IES research centers host virtual office hours to provide technical assistance for grant applicants interested in open funding opportunities. More information is available here.

Total current expenditures per pupil slightly increased across all public school districts in school year 2021-22 (July 17, 2024)
This publication includes information and tables with data on public elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures at the local education agency (LEA) or school district level for school year 2021-22.

New Snapshot: Skills of young adults by education and work status (PIAAC 2017) (July 17, 2024)
Eleven percent of U.S. young adults, ages 16-24, were neither in education nor employed in 2017. Some of these young adults had low literacy (20%) and/or low numeracy (39%) skills in English.

NCER Awards $103 Million in Education Research Grants  (July 11, 2024)
NCER awards new grants from its FY 2024 Education Research Grants program competition.

Implementation experiences of elementary schools using departmentalized instruction (July 9, 2024)
Report describes school and teacher experiences implementing departmentalized instruction and how these experiences aligned with some of the potential benefits and challenges of the strategy.

2023-24 Common Core of Data (CCD) Preliminary Directory Data Release (July 8, 2024)
2023-24 Common Core of Data (CCD) Preliminary Directory Files are now available. These files are the product of the CCD data collection for the 2023-24 school year. Data were submitted by states and jurisdictions in spring 2024 and all district- and school-level data are based on a snapshot date of October 1, 2023. These preliminary files include directory information and some limited attributes about the school or district, such as type, operational status, the lowest and highest grade offered, and whether a school is a charter school.