Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Strengthening Accountability to Protect Students and Taxpayers
You can watch the hearing and download the testimonies here
“Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education.”
You can watch the hearing and download Chairman Bobby Scott’s testimony here
We’re Listening…Even if Committee Democrats Aren’t
This Administration focuses on freedom for teachers. Freedom for parents. And freedom for all students. Because we recognize each is a unique individual, and each should be treated as such. Every child should be free to learn where and how it works for them—where and how it unlocks their potential,” Secretary DeVos said in her opening statement.
Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Strengthening accountability to protect students and taxpayers – Brookings
Editor’s Note: The following is a testimony delivered by Adam Looney to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on April 10, 2019.
Elizabeth Warren: Wall Street Has Inappropriate Love Affair With For-Profit Colleges – Forbes
Congressional Hearings Look at Accountability, Priorities for Higher Ed – American Council on Education
The Senate HEA hearing focused on accountability, following a House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment hearing on the same topic last week. The HEA, the single most important piece of legislation overseeing the relationship between the federal government, colleges and universities, and students, was last reauthorized in 2008.
DeVos ‘not familiar’ with affirmative action guidance her agency scrapped – Politico
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told a House panel Wednesday that she is “not familiar” with affirmative action guidance for schools that the Trump administration rescinded last summer, or with a major Supreme Court ruling on which portions of the guidance were based.