With tens of millions of people from a range of backgrounds across the nation unable to access even low-grade broadband service, to say nothing of the information, health-care, and education available through those high-tech portals, President Biden last year signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and with it, a one-time, $42.45 billion investment that offered the prospect of expanding such service to unserved and underserved communities and regions.

As school districts grapple with a widespread loss of learning time caused by the COVID-19 pandemic—and as they struggle with how best to spend an infusion of one-time federal funds to address it—a group of education leaders, philanthropists, researchers, and local leaders today announced the launch of Accelerate, a nonprofit organization that seeks to embed high-impact tutoring programs in public schools now and for the long term.

The nonprofit organization America Achieves announced today the release of a policy playbook from its State Recovery Now initiative. The playbook provides state and local governments with innovative, step-by-step strategies for offering people effective pathways to good careers and for helping employers fill in-demand jobs – all grounded in a strong evidence base.

America Achieves, New America, and more than 30 other workforce-related organizations today released a joint letter calling on Congressional leaders to include workforce development in upcoming economic recovery and infrastructure legislation.