Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) will chair the House Education and the Workforce Committee. She previously chaired the committee from 2017 to 2019. Foxx said in a statement that she will conduct vigorous and sustained oversight of the federal government, especially the Departments of Education and Labor, which will be among…
Congress has approved significant fiscal year 2023 increases for Title I programs in high-poverty schools, special education and community schools, with the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) pre-K-12 portion of $45 billion equaling a 5.6% increase over last year’s spending allocation. The legislation, signed by President Joe Biden on Dec.…
At a recent U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on solutions to school gun violence and mass shootings, victims of the May massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and survivors of other mass shootings testified about their experiences on the day of and following these tragedies, while lawmakers disagreed…
On November 8, 2022, NAPSA joined 41 other national organizations in signing on to a letter supporting the EDUCATORS for America Act (S 3360/HR 6205), which would invest in and revitalize federal educator preparation programs. That has been sent to all members of the US Congress. The letter states that…
Calling federal school meal policy on alternative milk an “issue of equity as it places an unfair burden squarely on minority children,” 31 Democrat members of Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to address the issue. Currently, children who are lactose intolerant must provide a doctor’s note…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) report on 2021 suicides quantify what many of us have already observed: U.S. suicide deaths rose after a brief decline. The increase is most profound among young men, 15 to 24 years old, for whom the suicide rate was double (+8 percent)…
The White House announced that it plans to work with Congress to expand access to free school meals for 9 million more children by 2032 as a first step toward creating a pathway to universal school meals. The plan was outlined among other steps in the White House’s National Strategy…
A Republican-led request for documents related to federal school reopening guidance was denied by the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee. Accusations about special interests and political collusion over national school reopening guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic dominated a markup hearing held by the House Education and Labor Committee. Lawmakers…
While crime committed by youth and incarceration of teens has decreased over the past 25 years, there is still a critical need for prevention and intervention initiatives, including those supported by schools, according to panelists and lawmakers speaking at a virtual hearing on juvenile justice hosted by the U.S House…
On July 28, 2022, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee proposed a 13% increase for K-12 in fiscal year (FY) 2023. The proposed spending plan includes $20.1 billion for Title I grants and $15.3 billion for special education grants. Also included in the FY 2023 bill is $12 billion for Head…
