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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 »

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) wants to reverse a variety of Obama administration labor actions and push legislation to limit the executive branch's regulatory authority if she's named chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee in the next Congress. “We need to not just roll back the regulations from the Obama administration, but write legislation that makes it abundantly… 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 »

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 »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., will host a U.S. Service Academy Day on Saturday, Oct. 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wilkesboro Civic Center, 1241 School Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697. The event will help familiarize students with the application and nomination process for applying to the nation's five military service academies. “North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District… Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s Fifth District, including Watauga County, voted with a 246-177 majority on House Bill 6094 on Sept. 28 to delay the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule for six months. The DOL rule, scheduled to take effect in December, makes anyone earning up to $47,476 a year eligible for overtime pay. The salary cutoff now is… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., has introduced legislation that ensures Congress has the opportunity to take action when mandatory programs exceed their cost estimates.   “Washington has a serious spending problem and increases in mandatory spending are the largest cause of our worsening fiscal outlook. These programs often come in significantly over budget and Congress… Read more »