A quick look at the news from last week, compiled by Penn Hill Group: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess and will return on Tuesday, September 8. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education (ED) approved one-year state waiver renewals under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) for Florida, Idaho, […]
A quick look at the news from last week, compiled by Penn Hill Group: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess and will return on Tuesday, September 8. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced in September it will begin a negotiated rulemaking process to clarify how direct loan borrowers who […]
A quick look at the news from last week, compiled by Penn Hill Group: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess and will return on Tuesday, September 8. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education (ED) approved three-year state waiver renewals under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) for Maine and Michigan. […]
Earlier this summer, Penn Hill Group Principal, Danica Petroshius, Vice President, Rich Stombres and Senior Associate, Ruth López, participated in National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR’s) Annual Conference. At the conference, the largest gathering of its kind in the Hispanic community, Penn Hill Group provided insight into federal education issues affecting the Latino community to […]
A quick look at the news from last week, compiled by Penn Hill Group: HOUSE The House is in recess and will return on Tuesday, September 8. SENATE The Senate is in recess and will return on Tuesday, September 8. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s executive session scheduled for Thursday, August 6, […]
A quick look at the news from last week, compiled by Penn Hill Group: HOUSE The House is in recess and will return on September 8. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chairman […]
HOUSE The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold a committee hearing on Tuesday, July 28, on policies and priorities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell will testify. SENATE As a part of a series of hearings related to reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, […]
On Friday, June 12, Penn Hill Group Principal Danica Petroshius participated in panel at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in Los Angeles, California, under the conference theme of “Equity by Design.” Other participants included Cathy Casserly, a Fellow at the Aspen Institute Communications & Society Program; Steve Bowen, the Director of Innovation at Council […]
Meet Madison Smith, a rising senior at Washington and Lee University, who has joined Penn Hill Group as an intern this summer. With an interest in poverty studies, Madison is an economics major and education policy minor. See our interview with Madison below to learn more about her and what she brings to our office. […]
A quick look at the news from last week, compiled by Penn Hill Group: HOUSE The House Committee on Rules will meet for a second time to consider H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, which reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), on Tuesday, July 7 at 5:00 p.m. Education Week reported this could […]
