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Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on President Biden’s remarks: “The Biden administration’s focus on wrong-headed policy, like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) authoritarian vaccination-and-testing diktat, has directly contributed to the COVID-19 testing shortage now plaguing the country. But rather ... Read more »

Parents are speaking up and the results are clear—they are unhappy with the performance of public schools. A new survey by Free to Learn found that parents are concerned with overall academic standards in K-12 schools and the prevalence of virtual learning. It also found that Americans believe parents should have a larger role in their child’s education. Academic Achievement Is Getting Further out... Read more »

Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) sent a follow-up letter to the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) Marty Walsh to reiterate numerous concerns about DOL operations, including how the majority of DOL employees have yet to return to in-person work and that the Secretary himself h... Read more »

Many institutions of higher education are not taking the threat of China seriously. A recent report by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies (FDD) makes clear that Confucius Institutes (CIs) are not the only way the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) is trying to gain a foothold in the United States. There are multiple other ways the CCP is infiltrating college campuses, including leveraging Chines... Read more »

Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (NC-05) and Congressman Chris Jacobs (NY-27) released the following statements after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today it was endorsing a test-to-stay option for students to remain in the classroom following the Members' successful advocacy. “Keeping children out of the classroom for months on end was a majo... Read more »

Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC), Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA), and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) sent a follow-up letter to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman Lauren M. McFerran expressing continuing concerns over Members Gwynne Wilcox’s and David Prouty’s... Read more »

Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) sent a letter to the Department of Education’s (Department) Inspector General Sandra Bruce asking her to investigate the Department’s decision to terminate its contracts with all private collection agencies (PCAs). The letter notes the action could have significant consequences for the approxim... Read more »

Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Department of Education (Department) withdrew its proposal to end data collection on allegations and incidents of sexual assault by school staff members: “I was astounded when the Office for Civil Rights proposed removing questions related to incidents of sexual assaults by staff me... Read more »

Child care provisions in the Democrats’ House-passed spending bill discriminate against faith-based child care providers by excluding them from being able to access federal subsidies. This will push these private day care facilities out of the market, raise the cost of child care overall, and give parents less choice. The purpose of Democrats’ child care provisions is to get parents out of the way... Read more »

President Biden’s so-called Build Back Better agenda is a Big Labor payout. The Biden administration takes every chance it gets to bolster the power of union bosses, even signing an executive order to create a task force to force more workers into unions. Biden’s massive spending bill includes billions of dollars in green energy projects designed to benefit Big Labor. For example, under Democrats’... Read more »