North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx questioned the Education Department's overreach when it comes to campus sexual assault during a hearing on Wednesday. The congresswoman directed her question to Dr. John King, the acting secretary of the Education Department, who is currently going through the confirmation process to officially become head of the department. "I'm very concerned about what's happening within your department's Office for Civil Rights and its impact on college campuses acr... Read more

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., is encouraging high school students in North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District to submit entries for the 2016 Congressional Art Competition, which is a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize talented young artists and promote the valuable role meaningful art plays in our society. “Every year our country’s top young artists have the chance to display their work in the United States Capitol where it will be seen by visitors from arou... Read more

Rep. Virginia Foxx said in a heated exchange with Acting Education Secretary John B. King Jr. this morning that she thinks the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is out of line. Foxx, the leading candidate to become the next chair of the House education committee, said that “for too long, the OCR has gone around Congress,” and she isn’t sure about the “legitimacy and effectiveness” of the agency’s actions. And “the office has used the Dear Colleague process and implied threat of inve... Read more

The U.S. Department of Education has agreed to create a searchable database to publicize which Christian colleges and universities have applied for exemptions from a 44-year-old gender-equality law. The announcement comes a month after the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group, accused Christian institutions of “hidden discrimination” for obtaining Title IX waivers. The same day HRC released its report, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and seven other Democratic senators a... Read more

The No. 2 Republican on the House Education and Workforce Committee is endorsing Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) to become the panel’s next chairman. In an interview with The Hill, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) said he would fully support Foxx to succeed retiring Education Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.). The endorsement all but guarantees Foxx — a current member of the GOP leadership team — will win the committee gavel later this fall. “She’s qualified as a former college administrator, as an educator wit... Read more

It’s an election year for all members of the U.S. House, but Rep. Virginia Foxx predicts a productive 2016. Foxx, R-5, will be involved in primary and general election competitions in 2016, but expects an on-time budget, a more thorough budget process and more examples of what Republican leadership can produce when in control of the U.S. Senate and House. She spoke this week about her expectations for 2016 and experiences in 2015 during an interview with the Salisbury Post. She shied away from c... Read more

Legislation that supporters say will significantly reduce federal control of local classrooms and has drawn support from congressional lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum — U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for example — is heading to President Barack Obama’s desk. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, by a vote of 85-12, a week after the U.S. House passed it 359-64. North Carolina schools stand to re... Read more

Republican U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis and the majority of North Carolina’s congressional delegation supported bipartisan education legislation set to replace some federal laws introduced in the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. Burr, North Carolina’s senior senator, called the Every Student Succeeds Act “one of the most important education policy changes of our time.” The bill, passed by the Senate in a 85-12 vote Wednesday, would reduce the federal government’s say over classroom stan... Read more

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today praised passage of legislation to improve K-12 education by replacing No Child Left Behind with new policies to help every child access a high-quality education. “As a grandmother, educator and former school board member, I know students are best served when teachers, parents and administrators are the driving force behind improving education,” said Foxx. “This legislation does just that by reducing the federal footprint in the nation’s classrooms a... Read more

One of the more remarkable aspects of the bipartisan agreement on a replacement for the No Child Left Behind law, which the House is on course to embrace this week, is the team of authors’ relatively modest level of collective devotion to education policy. This is especially true on the south half of Capitol Hill, which is on the backside of a changing of the guard for House members who make improving our schools one of their big interests. The timing of the rewrite of federal policies on elemen... Read more