In Case You Missed It, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke to Rick Hess for Education Week’s Straight Up opinion blog regarding her accomplishments, frustrations, and takeaways during her tenure as Chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee. The Trump Administration Should ‘Devolve the Ed Dept.'s Responsibilities to the States’ Rick Hess Decembe... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the Crucial Communism Teaching Act with a bipartisan vote of 327 to 62. H.R. 5349, authored by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), makes optional educational materials available through the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to help educate high school stud... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), on the House Floor, called out the Biden-Harris Education Department for failing its third audit in a row. Chairwoman Foxx’s Remarks: “Mr. Speaker, the Biden-Harris Education Department has once again failed America’s hardworking taxpayers. “For THREE years in a row the Education Department failed its audit. In other words, the... Read more »
On the House Floor, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) highlighted “launchpad jobs,” which are setting students up for career success without requiring a baccalaureate degree. Launchpad jobs are at the center of a new study out that shows “one in five workers without a degree are out-earning the median college graduate and two million nondegree workers are earnin... Read more »
Students are falling behind. The latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) confirmed it again today: American students had the lowest test scores in two decades. Why then, are so many students being forced to spend their valuable time in the classroom focused on things like “slavocracy” and radical sexual ideology instead of the basics in reading, math, and civics? That ... Read more »
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, December 11, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a hearing titled: “Examining the Policies and Priorities of AmeriCorps and Its FY 2024 Audit Failure.” “AmeriCorps is a prime example of the federal government’s inefficiency. It has failed eight audits in a row, and yet the Biden-Ha... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued this statement on the horrific results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which is an assessment administered every four years that compares U.S. student math and science achievement with the rest of the world: “TIMSS is one way we know how students stack up to the rest of the world. Tod... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Aaron Bean (R-FL) today chaired a hearing titled, “Back to Basics: America's Founding, Civics, Self-Government in K-12 Curricula,” and offered the following statement, as prepared for delivery: "Jim Rohn one of the pioneers of personal development, once said: 'Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to was... Read more »
Students are falling behind. The latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) confirmed it again today: American students had the lowest test scores in two decades. Why then, are so many students being forced to spend their valuable time in the classroom focused on things like “slavocracy” and radical sexual ideology instead of the basics in reading, math, and civics? That ... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) called on the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Education to withdraw its proposed rule to "cancel" borrowers’ student loans based on "hardships." In a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Foxx outlines the illegality of this latest debt transfer scheme. "The administration chose to disregard the ... Read more »
