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 […]
Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (May 19 – 23): HOUSE and SENATE Leadership of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) and the House Education and the Workforce Committee announced a bipartisan deal on a reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act, after resolving differences between the SKILLS […]
Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (May 12 – May 16): HOUSE and SENATE The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the Strong Start for America’s Children Act, by a partisan vote of 12-10. The bill is Chairman Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) version of the President’s proposed state Pre-K […]
Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (May 5– May 9): HOUSE The House of Representatives passed H.R. 4366, the Strengthening Education through Research Act, a bill to reauthorize the Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA) by a voice vote. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 10, the Success and Opportunity through Quality […]