U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today urged his colleagues to join him in supporting the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act (H.R. 471). The SOAR Act would reauthorize the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (D.C. OSP), a bipartisan initiative that helps low-income students in the nation’s capital obtain a scholarship to attend a priv... Read more »
On Thursday, March 31 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled, ”The Future of Union Transparency and Accountability.” The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) was enacted to ensure union transparency ... Read more »
This week, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), held two field hearings in Pennsylvania and New York entitled, “Reviving our Economy: The Role of Higher Education in Job Growth and Development.” The field hearings were designed to solicit feedback on education and workforce needs in American communities. Each featured panel discussions on the ... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the one year anniversary of the job-destroying health care law: “The American people asked for health care reforms that would lower costs. What they received instead was a government takeover complete with higher premiums, more government spending and taxes, and a new bureaucratic maze ... Read more »
Next week, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold two field hearings entitled, “Reviving our Economy: The Role of Higher Education in Job Growth and Development.” Education and the workforce are vital to America’s future economic success on an increasingly competitive world stage. Both areas require flexibility and adaptability; they rely on constant innovation to keep p... Read more »
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to review the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation. The hearing examined bipartisan concerns the regulation would impose arbitrary requirements on proprietary colleges, deny access to students, destroy jobs, and undermine the strength of the American workforc... Read more »
On Thursday, March 17 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, "Education Regulations: Roadblocks to Student Choice in Higher Education." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The Higher Education Act states any program at a proprietary college must “prepare stud... Read more »
The U.S. House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), held a hearing today to examine the negative impact intrusive federal paperwork requirements have on teachers, administrators, and students in elementary and secondary schools. During the hearing, both Committee members and witnesses stressed the ne... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement after the House approved a continuing resolution to fund the government through April 8, 2011: “Every week, families and business owners sacrifice ‘wants’ for ‘needs’ in order to continue living within their means. These Americans are acting responsibly, and they expect Washington ... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement on President Obama’s education speech at Kenmore Middle School: "The president's remarks affirm the importance of fixing the nation’s broken education system. As we develop targeted, fiscally responsible reforms, the Committee on Education and the Workforce continues to work with school ... Read more »
