President and Administration
Natalie Jaresko, the executive director of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board, is resigning after helping the U.S. commonwealth through a historic bankruptcy…
President Biden issued a proclamation declaring January 2022 as National Mentoring Month. Mentoring has a positive effect, both academically and professionally…
President Biden pledged a stepped-up federal fight against gun violence as he visited New York City on Thursday, 2/3, and called for more funding for law enforcement and community anti-violence programs to address rising crime…
Employers in the U.S. added roughly 467,000 jobs in January and the numbers for November and December were revised significantly upward - an unexpected jolt to the economy that came in the midst of the surging Omicron variant of COVID-19…
On Friday, 2/4, the Biden administration issued a new rule asking schools to soon start meeting nutrition standards that were strengthened at the urging of former first lady Michelle Obama - but were suspended during the pandemic as schools struggled to procure more nutritious options…
Congress
The “Four Corners” – the chairs and ranking Republicans on the House and Senate appropriations committees – continue meeting in an effort to extend government funding…
The White House is preparing another COVID-19 funding request for Congress that could include both domestic and international priorities…
On 1/27, Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) had brain surgery in response to a relatively minor stroke…
The House approved a $350 billion initiative Friday, 2/4, to boost U.S. competitiveness with China and other rivals, but differences with the Senate and emerging partisan divides signaled struggles ahead in reaching a compromise…
The Republican Party on Friday, 2/4, officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and events that led to it “legitimate political discourse,” and rebuked Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who have been the most outspoken in condemning the deadly riot and the role of former President Trump in spreading the election lies that fueled it…
Education
There is a new risk-based model for how state regulators should oversee colleges that enroll GI Bill recipients…
On Friday, 2/4, the House approved an amendment to add the College Transparency Act to the America Competes Act, which the House then passed…
Today, 2/7, the Education Department released updates to the College Scorecard that make the tool more useful for students and families weighing college options…
Last week, ED and its technical assistance partner the National Comprehensive Center released a new resource to help states share their progress deploying the $122 billion American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) funds…
During the two years that COVID-19 has upended school for millions of families, education leaders have increasingly touted personalized tutors as a means of compensating for lost learning…
The national six-year completion rate for students who started college in 2015 reached 62.2 percent, according to a new report out on Thursday, 2/3, from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center…
As battles erupt around the country over how the subject of race should be treated in the classroom, a new survey finds Americans are split over whether schools should teach children about current-day racism…