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North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx has landed the top post on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Foxx announced Friday that she will be the committee's chairwoman for the next session of Congress. A news release says the House Republican caucus approved her as the choice of the House Republican Steering Committee. Foxx is from Avery County and was first elected from… Read more »

House Republicans today voted to name Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) as chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in the next Congress. “My colleagues have entrusted me with a significant responsibility, and I look forward to building on the foundation established by leaders such as John Kline and John Boehner and continuing their legacy of honest, dogged work… Read more »

Rep. Virginia A. Foxx, a North Carolina Republican who just won election to her seventh term in Congress, was named on Friday as the new chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the main policy-making panel for higher education in the chamber. Ms. Foxx, who has led the panel’s higher-education subcommittee since 2010, will take over the committee’s leadership… Read more »

Virginia Foxx pulled herself up by her own bootstraps and wants every American child to be able to do the same. As the 73-year-old GOP lawmaker and former community college president is poised to assume the leadership of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, she plans to help deliver on that idea — or at least, erase what she regards as Barack Obama's wrongheaded… Read more »

A Congressional Research Service memo released last week found that regulations submitted to Congress after May 30, 2016, would be subject to review under a little-used tool called the Congressional Review Act. With control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, the GOP has said one of its first priorities will be rolling back regulations affecting labor, finance, the… Read more »

The U.S. Department of Education overpaid Pell grant recipients by $2.03 billion in fiscal 2016 and made another $188 million in underpayments, according to an agency finance report released this week. The error rate for the student-aid program was 7.85% for the year ended Sept. 30, an increase over rates published for the prior year, but officials said they used a new methodology for… Read more »

After serving multiple terms as chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce subcommittee on higher education, Representative Virginia Foxx is poised to assume leadership of the full committee in the next Congress. And the longtime critic of the Obama administration’s higher education policies says she and other Republicans are ready to reverse course on… Read more »

United States Congresswoman Virginia Foxx spent Oct. 25 visiting Boone’s Two Rivers Community School, a public charter school that has been recognized as an Honor School of Excellence by North Carolina. As recently as last school year (2015-2016), students at Two Rivers Community School outperformed students in both the Watauga County Schools system and North Carolina public schools in… Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said Wednesday that she will officially run to be chairwoman of the House education committee when the next session of Congress begins in 2017. Foxx has long been rumored to be one of the top candidates to replace the outgoing chairman, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., who is retiring. She currently leads the House panel's subcommittee on higher education and… Read more »

After passing bipartisan legislation updating the national K-12 law (PL 114-95), education advocates and lawmakers are hoping to make similar progress on reauthorizing the main higher education law. College Costs The issue: Student loans are near the top of the list for lawmakers to tackle when they reauthorize the 2008 version of the Higher Education Act (PL 110-315). The law… Read more »