Case Study: Education Commission of the States tracks 7,500+ education bills annually and streamlines COVID-19 policy monitoring with FiscalNote

How the Education Commission of the States Tracks 7,500 Bills a Year from Education Policy to COVID-19 Using FiscalNote

The Education Commission of the States (ECS) is a nonpartisan policy organization that tracks education legislation, translates research, and advises state policymakers. Facing 45 broad issue areas and 275 sub-issues that generate thousands of bills a year (roughly 7,500–8,000), ECS’s previous multi-step, state-split tracking process produced large, hard-to-filter batches of bills and required significant manual sorting and IT support.

By adopting FiscalNote’s state tracking solution and public policy map, ECS moved to targeted discovery alerts and customizable searches for each issue, automated bill uploads and summaries, and topic-based staff assignments. The result: ECS can efficiently monitor every education bill across all 50 states and DC (including COVID-19 legislation), categorize and publish priorities in minutes, speed up research and briefings, and give members streamlined access to comprehensive, up-to-date policy information.

Education Commission of the States

Jennifer Thomsen

Director of Policy