YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityFree federal cyber-defense help for K–12 schools — security tools, training, and a yearly public report on school hacks
Transparency & Accountability
CISA would collect reports of school hacks that schools choose to share. Each year it would post a report on what it finds, grouped together and stripped of details that identify people.
Each year, CISA would post online how its school cyber program is working. The report would list the tools and services schools got, how many students were served, and attacks found or stopped.
More about this bill
Your child's school could get free federal help to guard against hackers and ransomware. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, the federal cyber-defense agency) would run the program. It would set up security tools for schools. It would also offer protection services and staff training. CISA would work through outside groups that share cyber threat information. CISA would also open a public website with safety tips, training, and a list of grants schools can apply for. Schools could choose to report hacks to a new list kept by CISA. Each year, CISA would post reports online on school cyberattacks and on how the program is doing. Those reports would leave out details that identify people. Congress could spend up to $10 million a year on this in 2027 and 2028.
Congressional Summary
Enhancing K-12 Cybersecurity Act This bill establishes resources and a program to address cybersecurity of elementary and secondary schools. First, the bill directs the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to establish an information exchange to disseminate information, best practices, training, and resources to improve cybersecurity in elementary and secondary schools. In addition, CISA must establish a registry to track cyber incidents affecting information technology systems that are owned or managed by schools and educational agencies. Schools and educational agencies may voluntarily submit information to the registry. Finally, the bill requires CISA to establish a program to address cybersecurity threats to school information systems.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-07-23
- Date Added
- 2026-10-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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