President and Administration
On 9/13, the Department of Education announced an additional $2.5 million investment to centers that serve a critical role for parents and families of students with disabilities across the nation…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to scrap an unenforced Head Start face mask requirement for children and adults “in the near future,” the agency’s children and families administration announced Friday, 9/16…
The Biden administration on Wednesday, 9/14, announced more than two-thirds of Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Deployment Plans from states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have been approved ahead of schedule under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program…
President Joe Biden’s popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll…
President Biden gathered with top Democrats at the White House last week to celebrate their inflation fight at an inopportune moment, as a sobering new report showed just how far the economy still has to go to bring soaring consumer prices under control…
The American Rescue Plan expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC) from $2,000 per child to $3,600 for children under age six and $3,000 for children ages six to 17…
Mortgage rates topped six percent this week, their highest level since 2008, giving a jolt to home buyers who last year were paying less than half that…
President Biden said Thursday, 9/15, a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached…
Congress
In July, the House passed Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) telehealth bill to extend eased pandemic rules for Medicare patients through 2024…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signaled Wednesday, 9/14, that she could back a side deal between Democratic leaders and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)...
In a letter, eight House Democrats urged Biden on Friday, 9/16, to immediately scrap his current plan to halt releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve next month and keep releasing oil from America's emergency stockpile through at least the end of the year…
In a joint opinion piece released in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, 9/18, Congresswomen Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) argued that it is past time to reform the Electoral Count Act to make clear Congress can’t overturn an election result…
Senate Republicans led by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced federal anti-abortion legislation on Tuesday, 9/13…
Education
The Education Department has released new information about how targeted student debt relief will work…
New polling released today, 9/19, from the Illinois-based EveryLibrary Institute found that 56 percent of voters said they’ve heard “a great deal” about attempts to restrict or remove access to certain books in school and public libraries…
A new report details the benefits of work-based learning opportunities at community colleges and some of the ways these programs could improve…
Higher education associations generally like Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s new regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 but want more clarity about how the changes would be carried out, as well as more time to put policies in place…
More higher education employees in their 50s and 60s lack the financial confidence that they have enough money “to live comfortably throughout retirement” than was the case in 2019…
A preprint study on the link between scholarly performance and compensation finds that cumulative research productivity was more strongly related to compensation for men versus women—but only in STEM fields, not in the social and behavioral sciences…
This report draws on data the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has collected and synthesized over the course of the pandemic…
Test scores released Wednesday, 9/14, from almost two million students offer a glimmer of hope for parents anxious about learning loss: The percentage of older elementary and middle school students reading on grade level is nearing what it was before COVID-19…
The Education Department’s charter school funding rule is facing some tough days…
A checklist of nine strategies and guidance for state Medicaid agencies assisting school systems with Medicaid reimbursements for students’ school-based health services is now available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
For all the headlines proclaiming and debunking reports of a national teacher shortage, few have picked up on the issue’s third rail: Educators qualified to teach students with disabilities have been in short supply for half a century — since, essentially, the creation of special education…
Everywhere, it seems, back-to-school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage…