Appropriations
Speaker Mike Johnson will seek to pass a complex “clean” stopgap funding bill tomorrow, 11/14, that maintains the status quo…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is firing up a funding backstop to ward off a government shutdown, not waiting to see what kind of short-term spending fix Speaker Johnson tries to rally his raucous GOP conference around…
The House of Representatives postponed a vote on a transportation funding bill on Tuesday evening (11/7) minutes before it was scheduled to be considered on the House floor, a sign that it likely did not have the votes to pass…
House Republicans skipped passage of the judiciary, Treasury Department and IRS on Thursday, 11/9, as Speaker Mike Johnson’s legislative goals teeter thanks to the same disputes that vexed his predecessor…
California
Inflation may not be the only reason Californians are dealing with high prices at the grocery store…
California advocacy groups are preparing legislation that would ban schools from expelling or suspending students for possessing drugs, alcohol or nicotine products — an approach no other state has taken…
Last year, Californians voted to ban flavored tobacco products from being sold in the state…
Neither California’s traditional public schools nor charter schools have an edge over one another in national rankings of student achievement, according to the first assessments of charter students conducted by the Nation’s Report Card…
Congress
An influential group of House and Senate lawmakers will soon propose a set of sweeping restrictions over the government’s ability to surveil the digital exhaust and online communications of Americans, according to a copy of the legislation shared with Politico…
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the West Virginia centrist and appropriator who helped shape Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, announced Thursday, 11/9, that he won’t run for reelection next year…
Education
As part of its 2023 “State of the American Student” report, the Center on Reinventing Public Education invited 14 experts from various sectors to write about the path forward in education, with an eye toward innovation, solutions and hope…
As schools continue to recover from the pandemic, there’s one troubling COVID symptom they can’t seem to shake: record-setting absenteeism…
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a new round of findings from the School Pulse Panel, examining summer programs in 2023 and after-school programs during the 2023-24 school year…
A federally funded program designed to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students attending North Carolina charter schools has met most of its goals, Barbara O’Neal, NC ACCESS program administrator, told the NC Charter Schools Review Board this week…