Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt was quoted in two Education Week articles last week. On November 9, in Education Week’s “Trump Might Want to Scrap the Education Department; How Doable Is That?” article, Klatt commented on the possibility of abolishing the Department of Education (ED); “That’s a heavy lift, and there [are] some Republicans that […]

Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt was quoted in an October 25 Education Week article, “What Could Be in Store for Education if Democrats Get More Power in Congress?” Klatt commented on the leadership of the next Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee: “And even if Democrats take control, in the Senate, power gravitates […]

Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt was quoted in an October 20 Inside Higher Ed article, “Higher ed would be central in a Clinton administration, but who would carry agenda in Congress?” Klatt commented on the likelihood of passage of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s free college plan in the new Congress: “Proposing it and […]

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 […]

Education Week recently quoted Penn Hill Group Executive Vice President Alex Nock on the possibility of Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) taking over as senior Democratic member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, in the wake of Rep. George Miller’s (D-CA) announcement that he will retire at the end of this year. In a […]

Two education news outlets recently asked Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt to weigh in on the retirement of California Congressman George Miller, the senior Democratic member on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce: In a January 14 Education Week article: “Miller’s embrace of policies such as merit pay have landed him in […]

Vic Klatt, Principal at Penn Hill Group, recently spoke at a conference in New York City hosted by The Capital Roundtable and titled “Private Equity Investing in For-Profit Education Companies: How Breakdowns in Traditional Models & Applications of New Technologies Are Driving Change.” Klatt joined co-speakers Ralph Wolff, President of the Western Association of Schools […]

Danica Petroshius, Principal at Penn Hill Group, recently spoke on two panel discussions at the National Conference on Summer Learning – Summer Changes Everything — in Pittsburgh, PA. The first workshop, titled “A Funding Blueprint for Summer Learning Programs,” outlined a funding roadmap for school district and community partners to equip the field for success […]

Penn Hill Group Executive Vice President Alex Nock recently spoke at the Grantmakers in the Arts 2012 conference in Miami Beach, FL. Nock gave a report on the efforts of GIA’s Arts Education Funders Coalition to enhance the status of the arts within federal education policy, and a forecast of education policy action in 2013. […]

Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt recently spoke at the 2012 National Charter Schools Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Klatt gave an update on Federal Education Policy along with panel members Ursula Wright and Lisa Grover from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The National Charter Schools Conference is the largest gathering of the charter school movement, […]