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It's been a busy summer for U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican and member of the House education committee. That's in large part because Foxx, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2004 and chairs the higher education subcommittee, was co-chairwoman of the party's platform committee at the GOP convention last month. Foxx, who is consistently rated… Read more »

A ruling Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board opens the door for unionization efforts by graduate students who teach and do research at private universities. In a 3-1 decision, the board said that graduate teaching and research assistants at Columbia University are covered by the National Labor Relations Act and therefore entitled to collective bargaining. At issue in the… Read more »

A key pair of House Republicans has no faith in the Department of Education's ability to create the new state-of-the-art federal student loan servicing system it announced earlier this year. "We have no confidence in the department's ability to complete this project without delay, service interruptions and harm to borrowers," Rep. John King of Minnesota, chairman of the House education… Read more »

A Republican congresswoman from North Carolina believes the public is often given the wrong impression about Washington, telling "The Church Boys" podcast that politicians actually get along "much better than the press acknowledges." "We work together on the areas that we can," said Rep. Virginia Foxx, who has represented North Carolina's 5th district since 2005. "Most people would be… Read more »

A group of House Republicans sent a letter to the Obama administration demanding it explain the reasoning behind a recent order compelling every public school in the country to accept transgender bathroom usage. The Obama administration sparked a massive row with Republicans in May when it issued a “Dear Colleague” letter decreeing that all public schools in the country allow students… Read more »

If that Ivy League philosophy degree doesn’t result in the career of your dreams, cheer up: You may be able to have your student loans forgiven by claiming you were misled by the university. A broadly written rule proposed by the Education Department would allow students to discharge their federal loan debt if they can show that they were “defrauded or deceived” by a university’s… Read more »

Past is prologue. That’s what Republicans promise in the higher education platform they’ll finalize at their national convention in Cleveland: an approach that follows the direction they’ve already taken in Congress. Fewer regulations for colleges and universities. Less red tape for students. Less money. “Obviously what we do legislatively is a statement of our philosophy and… Read more »

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair John Kline (R-Minn.) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said today that the Obama administration took too long to implement bipartisan legislation to modernize job training.  In joint statement, the lawmakers said that although workers "will finally have the opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of a modern workforce development… Read more »

The top GOP Senate lawmaker for education criticized accountability proposals from the U.S. Department of Education that would require summative ratings for schools, saying such a requirement is not found in the Every Student Succeeds Act and would infringe on state autonomy. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the Senate education committee chairman, told Secretary of Education John B.… Read more »

As the Obama administration cracks down on for-profit colleges, three former officials working on behalf of an investment firm run by President Barack Obama's best friend have staged a behind-the-scenes campaign to get the Education Department to green-light a purchase of the biggest for-profit of them all - the University of Phoenix. The investors include a private equity firm founded… Read more »