The midterm elections were on Tuesday, November 4 with all 435 House seats and 36 Senate seats in play. Penn Hill Group’s midterm election analysis (PHG – Memo on Midterm Elections (November 7 2014)) includes a broad look at the election results, an analysis of how the results will affect politics and policy in the […]
A quick look at the news from last week: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess and are scheduled to return for legislative business on November 11. ADMINISTRATION The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague letter focused on requirements related to Title VI of […]
A quick look at the news from last week: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess and are scheduled to return for legislative business on November 11. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education released information on the latest cohort default rate (CDR) calculations for institutions of higher education. As in past years, […]
Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt was quoted in an August 27 Education Week article, “Policy Stakes High as Parties Vie for Senate Control,” specifically on the likelihood of passage of a charter school bill in the new Congress: “The charter bills’ fortunes could improve no matter what the political landscape looks like, because the […]
A quick look at the news from last week: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate were in recess until September 8. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold a joint subcommittee hearing titled, “Improving Department of Education Policies and Programs through Independent Oversight,” on Wednesday, September 10. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department […]
A quick look at the news from last week: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess until September 8. House education committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senate education committee Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) look into the Department of Education’s waiver policies for […]
A quick look at the news from last week: SENATE and HOUSE The House and Senate were in recess last week. The House is scheduled to take up H.R. 803, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, on Wednesday, July 9. The bill, which is a bipartisan compromise between House and Senate leaders on two pieces […]
A quick look at the news from last week: SENATE The Senate passed H.R. 803, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act by a vote of 95-3 on Thursday, with Senators Coburn (R-OK), Johnson (R-WI) and Lee (R-UT) voting against it. The bill represents a bipartisan compromise between House and Senate leaders on two pieces of […]
A quick look at the news from last week: HOUSE Current House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost his Republican primary race in Virginia and announced that he will step down from the Majority Leader position at the end of July. In a vote on Thursday, Republicans chose current Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), […]
A quick look at the news from last week (May 26-30): HOUSE The House Science Committee finished marking up, and passed by a vote of 20 to 16, the “Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act of 2014” (the FIRST Act, H.R. 4186). The committee began marking up the bill on May 20. The bill […]