Today, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing to discuss the learning loss experienced by students during COVID-19 and made worse by disastrous school closures which, at their peak, affected 97 percent of K-12 students. The learning loss has been catastrophic. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress report states that 9-year-olds... Read more »
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) discussed America’s broken student loan system and Republican solutions to reform education after high school, so students, borrowers, and taxpayers are protected. Missed Tuesday’s discussion at the American Enterprise Institute? Below are a few key excerpts from Foxx’s speech. Democrats’ radical ‘free college’ agenda hurts Ameri... Read more »
American headlines are saturated with an outpouring of pro-union activity and support; major news outlets claim that interest in union organizing is increasing at companies across the country. In reality, a slim percentage of America’s workers are interested in joining a union even as Democrats and the Biden administration assemble task forces and mandate union support. To help cut through the non... Read more »
Today the Biden administration is celebrating the passage of its radical legislation that will increase taxes, advance job-killing climate control regulations, and institute more government control over our health care system. More government spending that will exacerbate inflation and bring our nation closer to a single-payer health care system is nothing to celebrate. The Biden administration ha... Read more »
Today at 4 p.m. ET, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) will sit down with the American Enterprise Institute to discuss the Biden administration’s radical student loan debt scheme and present a conservative vision for postsecondary education in America. Foxx will tackle topics including: How can we rein in degree inflation and rising college costs? What is be... Read more »
Professional development (PD) programs for teachers have been co-opted by the Left. These programs should help teachers upskill—not bully them into spreading controversial material in the classroom. Unfortunately, too many school districts pay outside consultants handsomely to lecture educators on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender politics. School districts and administrators should focus on a... Read more »
Federal law already protects private-sector employees’ right to form a union, but the Biden administration believes that’s not enough. Instead, the administration is attempting to bypass Congress and implement the unpopular PRO Act’s policies through executive fiat. Taken together, these policies would force workers to pay union dues against their will, expose workers to intimidation and coercion,... Read more »
For anyone who forgot, the Department of Education (ED) radically underestimated the true cost of the federal student loan program. Although the federal government originally expected to generate revenue off student loans, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently found that the Education Department’s budget erred by $311 billion. For decades, economists warned that ED’s budget was wrong... Read more »
The Biden administration is ignoring Republican calls for federal student loan system reform. The student loan program is broken, but extending the inflationary repayment pause or providing mass student loan cancelation and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill is not the answer. Rather, it will exacerbate the vicious cycle of colleges charging higher tuition prices and students borrowing more and mo... Read more »
The Biden administration is expected to announce its decision on whether borrowers will resume repayment on student loans—yet regardless of the President’s decision, taxpayers will be hurt. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans needed a decisive leader. Unfortunately, this administration did the one thing Americans did not need: wait. August marks the 20th month of loan repayment pauses s... Read more »
