Question

the news is that we have a new teacher(identify the clause and state its kind

Answer 1

Sentence: The news is that we have a new teacher.

In the above sentence, the subordinate clause is "that we have a new teacher" while the main clause is the rest part of the sentence.

Since the subordinate clause answers the question: "What is the news?"

Therefore, the above subordinate clause is a noun clause. It is a dependent clause that behaves as a noun in the above sentence.