Posts Tagged ‘federal education policy’
DC Shuttle: Congress Still Trying to Fix No Child Left Behind
by The New England Council
October 18, 2011
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Tom Harkin (D-IA) released his draft of legislation to update the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law on Tuesday. The legislation frees states from NCLB's strict requirement that all children be proficient in reading and math by 2014, a standard which the Department of ...
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DC Shuttle: Congress Holds Hearing on Stemming Brain Drain of Foreign Grads
by The New England Council
October 11, 2011
The House Education and Workforce Committee's Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training held a hearing Wednesday on the benefit of encouraging foreign graduates of U.S. universities to remain in the U.S. Employment visas are currently restricted to 140,000 annually, with no more than 7% going to any single country. Supporters discussed various possible strategies ...
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DC Shuttle: Congress Looking at Changing Rule that Requires For-Profit Colleges Get No More than 90% of Revenue from Feds
by The New England Council
September 26, 2011
The Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill's $158 billion in discretionary funding provides a 0.12% funding increase from FY 2011 Education Department funding levels, and includes a provision to maintain Pell Grants at their current $5,550 maximum level. FY 2012 funding for the Education Department's Race to the Top competitive grant program would match current funding at $698.6 ...
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DC Shuttle: Congress to Update No Child Left Behind?
by The New England Council
September 19, 2011
On Tuesday, the House voted 365-54 to pass the latest in a series of bills to update the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law. This latest legislation (H.R. 2218) aims to establish more charter schools in order to increase student achievement around the country. Currently, the national charter school program provides funding for states ...
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DC Shuttle: Court Strikes Down New Ed Dept Rule on Online Programs … and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
July 18, 2011
The House Education and Workforce Committee advanced the third in a series of bills to reform the No Child Left Behind law on Wednesday. The bill (H.R. 2445) would expand states' freedom to distribute federal education funding, allowing them to take money allocated to a specific program and redirect it to other activities indicated by ...
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DC Shuttle: Debate Over NCLB Reform … and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
July 11, 2011
On Thursday, House Education and Workforce Committee Chair John Kline (R-MN) introduced No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reform legislation (H.R. 2445). The bill, which would give states and school districts almost complete control over how they spend federal education funding, is the third in a planned series of five education reform bills from House leadership. ...
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DC Shuttle: College Affordability Lists, DREAM Act … and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
July 5, 2011
The Education Department released College Affordability and Transparency Lists on Thursday. The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act requires the Education Department to produce six lists, with three examining tuition and fees and three examining each institution's average price of attendance minus grants and scholarships. The lists are also divided by type of institution (public/private, two-year/four-year, ...
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DC Shuttle: Duncan Hints at NCLB Alternative, Distance Learning Boosted and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
June 20, 2011
On June 11, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced that if Congress is unable to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the 2001 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law before the beginning of the 2011-12 school year, he would grant states waivers for the law's most burdensome requirements if they agreed to implement a set of ...
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DC Shuttle: Regulating For-Profit Colleges, Skills for America’s Future and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
June 13, 2011
Republican senators boycotted a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) which was called to discuss recruiting practices at for-profit colleges. Ranking Member Michael Enzi (R-WY) said in a letter that “until the Majority demonstrates a sincere willingness to hold fair hearings on higher education, we will not participate ...
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DC Shuttle: Congress Working to Reauthorize K-12 Law, Reward Early Learning, Protect Internet Privacy
by The New England Council
May 31, 2011
On Wednesday, the House Education and Workforce Committee advanced the first bill (H.R. 1891) in a planned series of education reform legislation. Under the bill, which was approved along party lines (23-16), $400 million in funding for over 40 education programs created under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would be repealed. Republican supporters ...
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