HOUSE and SENATE The Senate voted to confirm Scott Stump to be the Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) by a vote of 85 to 0. The Senate voted to confirm Jim Blew to be the Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House Appropriations Committee passed its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bill by a vote of 30 to 22. The Manager’s Amendment to the bill increased funding to match the FY2018 funding levels for School Safety Nation Activities and Child Care Access […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate were in recess this week and will resume next week. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education (ED) delayed the previous Administration’s “state authorization” rule for distance education programs until July 2020. ED delayed by two years the “significant disproportionality” rule which was aimed at addressing racial disparities in […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess next week. The House voted to reject the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act (H.R. 6136) by a vote of 121 to 301. This week, both the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee and the full Appropriations Committee […]
Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt was quoted in an July 27 Bloomberg Government article, “Pressure, Time, Ivanka: How a Bipartisan Jobs Bill Got Unstuck” Klatt commented on the reauthorization of the The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act: “The authorization that passed earlier this week was unlike any he’d seen before. It’s safe […]
Meet Penn Hill Group’s summer interns, Darine Bailey and Katherine Knox. Darine is a senior at University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Katherine is a sophomore at Swarthmore College. See our interviews with Darine and Katherine below to learn more about them and all that they bring to our office. Welcome, Darine […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee (LHHS) released and marked up its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 spending bill. Most education programs were level funded compared to FY2018. However, career and technical education (CTE) programs, the Charter School program, Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants, TRIO […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House passed the Administration’s rescissions package (H.R. 3) by a vote of 210 to 206. The Senate voted to confirm the nomination of Kenneth Marcus to be the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) by a vote of 50 to 46. Speaker Paul Ryan stated that […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate were in recess this week and will resume next week. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said that the Committee was not going to produce a Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization bill this year. ADMINISTRATION The Federal Commission on School Safety held […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess the week of May 28. The House Appropriations Committee approved the spending levels for each of the 12 appropriations subcommittees, referred to as 302(b) allocations, for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. The House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee (LHHS) was […]