News and Insights

A Heartfelt Farewell from Coalition Engagement Director Ace Parsi

Ace Parsi, Director of Coalition Engagement, iCivics

How does one summarize five years of transformative professional experiences in a few paragraphs? You don’t—but I’ll try. After five years of coordinating the CivxNow coalition, I decided to leave my role as Director of Coalition Engagement at iCivics to pursue a new professional chapter of public service. I leave

January 28, 2026

Insights

Spotlight on Civics in Spring State Legislative Sessions

CivxNow has been tracking proposed state legislation impacting civic education since January.

April 15, 2021

Momentum for Civics in the States

So far, in the 2021 state legislative session, more than 80 bills related to civic education have been introduced in 23 states. This is a significant increase in the number of civics bills introduced in the past several years and shows the momentum for strengthening and improving civic learning that

February 20, 2021

Majority of Americans See K-12 Civic Education as the Best Solution

This summer, pollster and messaging expert Frank Luntz conducted a survey of 1,000 adults 18 and older to find out what Americans from all political stripes think could help heal this country. What he found can be boiled down to two words: “better civics.”

September 29, 2020

Civics in the News

January 2026

EdSurge looks ahead to how civics will take center stage during America 250
2024 National Civics Bee winner Emily Brubaker makes the case that civics is for kids, not just adults, in this Newsweek op-ed
Former Anaheim Schools superintendent Michael Matsuda says democracy is not a spectator sport and needs to be at the center of public education in this EdSource piece
The Wall Street Journal looks at a new bill that would require New York schools to teach about what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021