Senate Mark-up on Perkins on June 26 The Senate HELP Committee will markup a bipartisan Perkins Career and Technical Education bill on Tuesday, June 26th at 2:30 in 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Click here to view the session. A bipartisan agreement has been reached on a Senate bill that would update the main federal […]
(Courtesy of Bloomberg Government) A Senate committee will vote on an update to a career and technical education law on June 20, its Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) said, even if he and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the panel’s top Democrat, are unable to come to a bipartisan compromise on the legislation. “Hopefully it will be […]
On May 31, COPAA, The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education, Secretary Betsy DeVos and Candice Jackson, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, to challenge the Department’s changes to its complaint handling process to strip students with […]
The Congressional STEM Education Caucus in partnership with the STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum, National Association of Manufacturers, and the American Council on Education hosted a briefing titled, Preparing for Next-Generation STEM Jobs: Partnerships between Higher Education and Industry. Industry and higher education leaders discussed how colleges and universities are working with industry to prepare […]
On May 22, the Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education.” The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing examined the U.S. Department of Education’s achievements since the Secretary’s confirmation and outline the […]
Courtesy of Politico The Education Department is launching a new effort to help schools make sure their websites are accessible to students with disabilities. The move comes after civil rights investigators tossed out hundreds of complaints about schools with inaccessible websites. The department also rewrote months-old agreements requiring some schools to update their sites. Education […]
Courtesy of ACTE Earlier today, President Trump nominated Scott Stump as the next Assistant Secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education. This position has not been formally filled since the beginning of the Trump Administration, and the first nominee, Michigan State Representative Tim Kelly, was withdrawn […]
At the National Summit for Educational Equity, the NAPE Education Foundation Board and the NAPE Executive Committee, named Dr. Ben Williams to be NAPE’s next Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Williams will replace Mimi Lufkin, who has served as NAPE’s CEO since 1995, on September 1, 2018. In this role, he will take NAPE through its […]
The Trump administration is launching a new effort to ease restrictions on how religious colleges access and use federal funding, according to a copy of the Education Department’s spring regulatory agenda reviewed by POLITICO. Secretary Betsy DeVos, in the coming months, plans to review and rewrite regulations that govern how faith-based colleges receive federal funding […]
Erica Green, The New York Times The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has begun dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints under a new protocol that allows investigators to disregard cases that are part of serial filings or that they consider burdensome to the office. Department officials said the new policy targeted advocates who flooded […]
All of us at NAPE are excited to announce the addition of Ricardo Romanillos, EdD, Director of Professional Learning, to the team. Ricardo brings background as a science teacher and Director of Secondary Science Curriculum and Instruction at Richardson Independent School District in Richardson, TX. His significant practical experience as an educator and working with […]
On Tuesday, March 20, the U.S. House of Representatives Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a hearing at 10 a.m. Eastern Time on the President’s FY19 Budget for the U.S. Department of Education. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is scheduled to testify during the hearing, which will be webcast […]
