Weekly Update 4/17/23

California

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the state will get the largest portion of a multistate settlement with Juul, an e-cigarette company that will pay out $462 million to seven jurisdictions for “deceptive and misleading marketing”…

Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) says she is trying to be a bridge builder between South Korea and the U.S., but as one of only two Korean American Republicans in Congress, she also is facing challenges educating her own party…

President and Administration

On Thursday, 4/13, President Biden announced efforts to expand federal health care to immigrants who came to the United States as children but do not qualify for government insurance plans…

House Republicans are working on a plan to suspend the debt ceiling…

According to the Education Department, schools can hire more cops and install more security systems on campus using federal money distributed after last year’s attack at Robb Elementary…

Education

The question of whether Oklahoma will approve the nation’s first explicitly religious charter school will continue to remain open for now…

The business of selling and buying undergraduate educations is a tricky one, and college shoppers are increasingly seeking more price predictability and granular data to assess the offers students get…