After overnight sessions in the House and Senate this week, today Congress narrowly passed H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation bill that has been the focus of debate for months. In the Senate, a 50/50...
Read more >On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) sent an email to states alerting them that key funds typically distributed by July 1 will not be distributed as expected. “Decisions have not been made...
On Thursday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to advance nominees for leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Education (ED). ED nominees included Penny...
Read more >On Tuesday, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) led a Democrat-only forum titled “Scamming Our Schools: Robbing Our Students’ Futures to Line Their Pockets,” criticizing the school voucher program proposed in...
Read more >In a unanimous decision in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a teenage girl with epilepsy and her family, who alleged that her Minnesota school district failed to...
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