All posts tagged "Politics & Voting"

• Senate Committee to Consider ‘No Child Left Behind’ Rewrite

  The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will begin work tomorrow on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, two...

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  Nomination of Wendy Spencer to Head CNCS Goes to the Senate

  The nomination of Wendy Spencer, head of Volunteer Florida which serves as the state’s commission for AmeriCorps and a longtime Republican, to...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Foster Care Waiver Bill Passes House and Senate

  A bill that would permit states to spend federal child welfare funds to experiment with new strategies, passed the House earlier this...

• Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

  It’s awesome and a bit scary to see your children speak out on issues about which they are passionate. I have two...

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  Who Can Protect Youth Spending This Year?

  As Congress prepares this month to take on a full slate of federal spending bills, research on federal expenditures from the Urban...

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  Obama Halts DREAM Act Deportations

  It won’t give any illegal immigrants a new passage to U.S. citizenship, but the Obama administration announced today that it will stop...

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  Debt Ceiling Agreement Preserves Pell Grants — For Now

  The agreement reached Sunday night among Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate provides specific funding for Pell Grants, but...

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  Debt Ceiling Agreement Preserves Pell Grants — For Now

  The agreement reached Sunday night among Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate provides specific funding for Pell Grants, but...

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  Republicans Eye Cuts to Pell Grants to Gain Tea Party Votes

  Supporters of Pell Grants for low-income college students put out an urgent appeal to mobilize students to blitz their congressional representatives for...

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  $4.46 Million Spent in Second Quarter Lobbying against ‘Gainful Employment’ Rules

  At least $4.46 million was spent lobbying on federal student loan issues over the second quarter of the year – mostly in...

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  Kids’ Share 2011: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2010

  The Brookings Institution and The Urban Institute The fifth annual Kids’ Share report represents a milestone in the analysis and reporting of...

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  Tweets, E-mails Fly to ‘Save Pell’

  Students are planning to take on the government in their media today, staging a one-day blitz of tweets, emails and other electronic...

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  House Committee Votes to Strip Restrictions on Title I, Other Funds

  The House Education and the Workforce Committee voted today – strictly along party lines – to allow local school districts to spend...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  House Appropriations Committee Eliminates Most Juvenile Justice Funding

  A spending bill that eliminates most federal funding for juvenile justice activities was approved today by the House Appropriations Committee, and is...

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  House Subcommittee Questions CNCS Head about Work with Planned Parenthood

  The acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) was called before a House subcommittee today to explain why...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  House Republicans Target 43 Ed Programs for Elimination

  Even as Democrats introduced various bills to shore up persistently low-performing schools and to provide funds to ameliorate tax losses in some...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  For Guidance on For-Profit Colleges, Look to the GI Bill

  After Congress decided to give soldiers returning home from World War II the opportunity to pursue a college education, thousands of for-profit...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  House Committee Proposes FY2011 Cuts

  The House Appropriations Committee this week released a list of cuts it plans to propose as the House and Senate tackle new...

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  GAO Says Internal Review Found No Bias in For-Profit Report

  The Government Accountability Office said today that an internal review of the need to issue a revised report on recruiting by for-profit...

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  New Report Disputes GAO For-Profit Findings

  A report commissioned by a coalition of for-profit schools challenges the findings of the Government Accountability Office’s report that found alleged fraud...