Rep. Tim Walberg to chair House education committee
Natalie Schwartz
December 13, 2024
Walberg will take the reins from Rep. Virginia Foxx, who led the panel twice and helped shape Republican discourse around higher education.
Rep. Tim Walberg, a Republican from Michigan, has been tapped to chair the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
“We have significant work ahead of us, from enshrining protections for parents to continuing to protect Jewish students on college campuses to rights providing more opportunity and flexibility to American workers,” Walberg said in a statement Thursday. “Freedom, opportunity, and fairness will guide our work as we deliver results for America.”
His statement suggests that at least one of his higher education priorities will mirror that of the committee’s outgoing leader, Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina. For over a year, Foxx and other committee Republicans have investigated colleges’ response to campus unrest following the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
