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President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week will mean sweeping changes in the way the federal government handles issues from foreign policy to education — and Education Secretary ...
The South Dakota Education Association and the state Democratic Party criticized Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds’ proposal to eliminate the federal Department of Education, calling it a bad ...
A group of Democratic and left-leaning senators sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Monday highlighting concerns they have on the upcoming changes to student loan services. The ...
In 2015, a majority of Americans supported a large role for federal government in education and approved of government performance in the area. The Department of Education had an approval rate of 44% at this time and a disapproval rate of 50%, with Democrats more likely than Republicans to approve of the department. [77]
[28] [29] The for-profit education industry has spent more than $40 million on lobbying from 2007 to 2012. [30] and $36 million since 2010. [31] For-profit education lobbying grew from $83,000 in 1990 to approximately $4.5 million in its peak year of 2012. [32] In 2019, colleges and universities spent almost $75 million in federal lobbies. [33]
The Democratic Party has been critical of Iran's nuclear weapon program and supported economic sanctions against the Iranian government. [77] In 2013, the Democratic led administration worked to reach a diplomatic agreement with the government of Iran to halt the Iranian nuclear weapon program in exchange for international economic sanction ...
GOP wins and a crisis in schooling has convinced some Democrats that the Biden administration needs to promote a liberal version of public school choice.
On January 4, 2007, with the Democrats once again in the majority, the committee's name was changed back to Committee on Education and Labor. [1] After Republicans recaptured the House majority in the 2010 elections, they returned to the name, Committee on Education and the Workforce, effective with the opening of the 112th Congress in 2011. [ 2 ]