President and Administration
The House plans to vote Tuesday 2/26 on legislation to formally block President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border…
Acting OMB Director Russell Vought wrote in an Op-Ed for RealClearPolitics that the President’s upcoming FY20 budget proposal will adhere “to the spending caps already set in law”, which would necessitate a 5% reduction to non-defense spending. President Trump’s previous budgets have…
In the next few days the USDA is expected to release its final rule on hiring requirements for school food directors. The rule is expected to provide more flexibility for small districts by loosening the experience requirements.
Department of Education
On 2/22 a federal judge ruled that the Department of Education had acted improperly when rejecting some student loan borrowers from the public service loan forgiveness program. The borrowers were initially told…
Congress
The House plans to vote on HR 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, this week. With a Democratic majority in the House…
On 2/26 the House Education and Labor Committee will hold a markup on H.R. 865 …The bill calls for new federal funding to improve public school buildings and would create a…
Congress’ hopes to introduce a national privacy law early 2020 have been stalled due to dissent from California Democrats who are happy with the California Consumer Privacy Act. They are concerned…
On 2/27 the Budget Committee will have a hearing on the Republican tax reform bill. The hearing is expected to touch on the SALT cap as well as…
This week the House will hold two hearings expected to examine President Trump’s immigration policies. Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) will be an expert witness for the Foreign Affairs Committee…
Other
Last week the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Center for Education and the Workforce is launching the Jobs Data Exchange (JDX) to provide open source data for…