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President-elect Donald Trump has placed a bull's-eye on the Education Department, and promised to dramatically downsize — or even eliminate — the agency. But it won't be easy.  Previous GOP heavyweights, including Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, tried to axe the department, and the task proved elusive. Reagan's opposition to the Education Department — spelled out in his… Read more »

As the 2016 presidential election continues to boil down to a two-party tug-of-war of political self-sabotage and voters struggling to find hints of likability between two generally disliked candidates, serious implications for higher education are drawing closer into view for many presidents and industry advocates. In the waning weeks of an Obama administration which recorded a number… Read more »

Ekima Whisonant’s son has received the Opportunity Scholarship to attend North Hills Christian School since second grade. He’s now in fourth grade. Whisonant said she has seen a real change in her son since he has been attending North Hills, and she would not have been able to send him to the private school without the scholarship. “I could not do it without (the scholarship),” she… Read more »

The North Carolina congresswoman in line to become the chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee doesn’t believe the federal government should have a role in education. Republican Virginia Foxx said she’s eager to work with a President Donald Trump to roll back numerous Obama administration labor regulations, while tying the hands of future regulators from ever… Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx, who confirmed her candidacy to chair the House Education and the Workforce Committee this week, said in an interview that she'd use that role to give a high priority to providing more information to college students through an update of the Higher Education Act. Foxx, the panel’s third-ranking Republican behind Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, is seeking to… Read more »

When ITT Tech announced last week that it was closing its doors, blaming aggressive regulations by the federal government, it was more evidence to many in the for-profit college sector that the Obama administration aims to regulate their sector out of existence. Even if that claim is debatable, many observers with views across the ideological spectrum see the administration taking a… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today praised House passage of legislation to strengthen career and technical education. “For far too long, there has been a discrepancy in what students are learning in the classroom and what employers say they need in the workplace,” said Foxx, chair of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and a former community college president. “This… Read more »

For far too long, there has been a discrepancy in what students are learning in the classroom and what employers say they need in the workplace. The passage of the bipartisan Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act in 2014 was an important step for the millions of Americans who are looking for work and for the employers who have job opportunities that remain vacant due to the skills gap.… Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx, a blunt-talking conservative often at odds with the Obama administration, is vying to be the next chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, she told POLITICO. Foxx, who served on the Republican Party’s platform steering committee, is widely assumed to be in line to take over the chairmanship if Republicans maintain control of the House. In a… Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) is vying to be the next chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, she told POLITICO on Monday. Here are excerpts from an interview with Foxx about her priorities and plans, should she ultimately become head of the committee. On her priorities for next year: "Higher ed is top of the list," Foxx said of her plans for the committee next Congress.… Read more »