A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE The House Republican Steering Committee has selected former House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) to be the Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee in the 115th Congress. The Continuing […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) announced that House and Senate Leadership have decided not to move forward with fiscal year (FY) 2017 Appropriations bills in calendar year 2016 and that the Committee is working on a Continuing […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE Republicans maintained control of the House with at least 238 seats as well as control of the Senate with at least 51 seats. 25 members of the House and Senate education committees, including the committee chairmen, sent […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until the week of November 14. House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and 123 other House Democrats sent a letter to the House and […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until the week of November 14. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) regulatory proposals on Title I, Part B, Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority and Title I-A Assessment, under […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until the week of November 14. House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) issued a statement applauding the 2014-2015 school year high school graduation rate […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until the week of November 14. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) released […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until the week of November 14. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) sent a letter urging the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), along with 68 members of Congress, issued a statement urging private universities and colleges to ensure the rights of teaching assistants (TAs) and […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE The Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee of the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing to examine the Department of Education’s (ED) proposed regulations on the supplement not supplant (SNS) provision in Title I of […]