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GOP education chairman anticipates vote on education bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House education committee said Wednesday he was blindsided by conservative opposition to his rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law and will take the next week to try to clear up misconceptions.

Senator Tester Introduces the Veterans Education Empowerment Act

Senator Jon Tester today introduced the Veterans Education Empowerment Act, a bill that would reauthorize a Department of Education grant program to help institutions of higher education establish, maintain, and improve veteran student centers – dedicated spaces on a college or university campus that provide student veterans or eligible family members with a meeting space and centralized office …

White House Takes The Gloves Off in Education Fight

After years of bipartisan language urging Congress to seize on “common goals” and “shared interests” to revise a dysfunctional federal education law, the Obama administration appears to be taking the gloves off. In a conference call with the press this week, the Department of Education slammed the House Republicans’ proposed bill to reauthorize the Elementary…