Last week, President Barack Obama announced a proposal that would provide two years of free tuition to anyone at community colleges across the nation.
“Every American, whether they’re young or just young at heart, they should be able to earn the skills and education necessary to be able to compete and win in the 21st century economy,” he said in a video posted on the White House… Read more »
Legislators representing Rowan County in U.S. Congress returned to Capitol Hill this week, with some of the top issues being the Keystone XL Pipeline, free community college and the amount of hours in a work week.
Sworn in on Tuesday, Jan. 6, all of Rowan County’s U.S. Representatives had taken the oath of office before. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5, first took office in 2005, making the… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today released the following statement regarding President Obama’s proposal to publicly fund community college for all Americans:
“As a former community college president, I am a huge fan of community colleges and the great educational opportunities they provide to students from all walks of life. However, I’m reminded of the old Peanuts cartoon… Read more »
A day after President Obama unexpectedly unveiled a plan offering more than $34 billion in subsidies for community college tuition to millions of Americans, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, chastened the president for his “bad habit” of creating programs without funding mechanisms.
“As a former community college president, I am a huge fan of community colleges and the great… Read more »
The Obama administration will soon publish its plan to rate more than 6,000 colleges nationwide based on the value they provide to students and to society.
The goal is to steer billions in federal financial aid toward the colleges that rate highly — and to yank funds from those that fail to meet administration standards on yardsticks such as the graduation rate, the cost of tuition or… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Strengthening Transparency in Higher Education Act:
“Students and families must wade through massive and often conflicting amounts of information in order to make informed college decisions,” said Rep. Foxx. “The Higher… Read more »
The House on Wednesday passed a bill by voice vote to streamline public data about institutions of higher education.
The bill, H.R. 4983, would direct the Secretary of Education to create a "College Dashboard" website to display data from colleges' most recent academic year.
The information would include the number of enrolled students, student-faculty ratio, percentage of… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, President Obama signed into law H.R. 803, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), legislation authored by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx providing for a long overdue reform of the Workforce Investment Act. WIOA represents a compromise between Congresswoman Foxx’s SKILLS Act (H.R. 803) and S. 1356, the Workforce Investment Act of… Read more »
Federal job training programs will see their biggest overhaul in 16 years after President Obama put his signature Tuesday on a law intended to streamline a tangled web of programs.
It's the first major rewrite of federal job training programs since Congress passed the Workforce Development Act in 1998 — when Netscape was the Web browser of choice, résumés were on paper and largely sent… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – R.J. Reynolds High School teacher Michael T. McCulloch has completed Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s week-long Teacher in Congress Internship. Congresswoman Foxx hopes the experience will help him encourage each of his students to become active participants in their government. In remarks delivered on the House floor, Congresswoman Foxx spoke… Read more »
