Committee on Education & The Workforce March 9, 2023 Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding President Biden’s FY 2024 budget proposal: “President Biden’s budget is a fiscal disaster that will dig our nation further into unsurmountable debt. The President is once again calling for reckless spending […]
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Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott March 10, 2023 The administration also wants $90 billion over 10 years to make two years of community college free. President Biden is seeking a third increase to the annual Pell Grant, of $820, as part of his budget request to Congress, which was unveiled Thursday. Department officials said the budget proposal, which […]
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Washington Examiner Jeremiah Poff March 10, 2023 An administrator from a Florida university says the Biden administration unfairly labeled his institution as a malefactor when it negotiated a settlement to discharge student loans in a lawsuit brought by a group of students who said their colleges had misrepresented themselves. Last summer, the Department of Education announced it was settling the Sweet v. […]
Read MoreInside Higher Ed Katherine Knott March 9, 2023 The longtime Republican congresswoman sees an opportunity to finally reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965 in her second stint as leader of the House education committee and is pledging oversight of the Biden administration. Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception […]
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