Parents Across America told the FTC: Don’t weaken student privacy. You can too | Parents Across America

Parents Across America told the FTC: Don’t weaken student privacy. You can too | Parents Across America

Parents Across America told the FTC: Don’t weaken student privacy. You can too

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) needs to hear from parents: We want our children’s privacy protected. The FTC may bow under the pressure of Big Tech and weaken COPPA regulations. COPPA is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, originally passed in 1998. Its purpose is to ensure online privacy protections for children under the age of 13 and it should be strengthened, not weakened. Parents Across America submitted the following comments to the FTC and we urge you to submit your own.

The deadline to submit comments to the FTC is December 9th.

Please submit your comments to the FTC here.

You can get more information on COPPA and sign on to the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood’s Letter to the FTC here.

The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy provides more information on COPPA and sample comments for you to submit to the FTC here.

To the FTC:

Student data is being collected at extraordinarily high rates and Parents Across America is calling on the FTC to strengthen, not weaken, COPPA regulations, increase enforcement of existing COPPA Rules, and better protect student privacy.

Parents are increasingly concerned about the lack of informed consent they’re given when it comes to the apps their children are using in their school work. They need the FTC to advocate for the best interests of children, not the bottom lines of EdTech companies.

Current COPPA regulations don’t do nearly enough to protect the data of children under the age of 13. Parents want COPPA to better protect their children’s school-generated data by requiring all app, software, service, platform, and device providers to publicly and prominently share how they protect student data.

The amount of student data collected by vendors is staggering and it’s worrisome to parents. COPPA regulations should require EdTech companies to only collect the data that is needed to operate their products. CONTINUE READING: Parents Across America told the FTC: Don’t weaken student privacy. You can too | Parents Across America

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AFT president’s opposition to Medicare for All is a threat to her own members. – Fred Klonsky

AFT president’s opposition to Medicare for All is a threat to her own members. – Fred Klonsky

AFT PRESIDENT’S OPPOSITION TO MEDICARE FOR ALL IS A THREAT TO HER OWN MEMBERS

It is rain, sleet and snow that will greet CTU members on the picket lines this morning.

I  hope that the strike ends soon.

I’m flashing back to a cold November morning a dozen years ago when our local was on strike over the cost of our health insurance.

Chicago weather is not a friend of organized labor.

If the Chicago strike lasts past Thursday, then the teachers will lose their health insurance and have to switch to COBRA if they want or need coverage.

The threat of losing health insurance should not be a factor in resolving the issues in this strike.

The fact that it is, demonstrates why the strikers’ own union president is so wrong about her opposition to a single national health care system and is doing a huge disservice to workers, including to union members.

The issues that separate the mayor from my teaching colleagues should be settled at the bargaining table. Teachers walking the picket lines this shitty morning have enough on their minds without worrying about Friday and the prospect of no health insurance.

As I wrote a while ago, Weingarten’s defense of work-based insurance with Medicare CONTINUE READING: AFT president’s opposition to Medicare for All is a threat to her own members. – Fred Klonsky

CURMUDGUCATION: PA: A Chance To Improve Teacher Evaluation

CURMUDGUCATION: PA: A Chance To Improve Teacher Evaluation

PA: A Chance To Improve Teacher Evaluation

No sooner had I written about taking back teacher evaluation, then a note crossed my desk about SB 751 and HB 1607.

Pennsylvania's teacher evaluation system is currently pretty lousy. There is nominal commitment to the Danielson model, a time-consuming pre- and post- observation process that involves a big bunch of online paperwork and Q & A answering, a cumbersome process involving Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) that-- well, it might be a stretch to say that nobody really understands SLOs, but I think it's fair to say that how SLOs play out for teachers depends an awful lot on how your local administration interprets the process.

And after you suffer through all that, your evaluation score still depends a lot on scores on the Big Standardized Test (in the Commonwealth, that's PSSAs for elementary and Keystones for secondary).  Your school gets a rating (SPP/Future Ready Index) that is about 90% test score based (the numbers are massaged a couple of different ways then added back together). If you teach a tested subject, you get another little jolt of test score magic. After everything is all factored together, you'll find that you are somewhere in the acceptable middle. All PA administrators are apparently required by law to keep repeating, "Nobody lives in distinguished. You just visit." The state doesn't want a whole bunch of awesome teachers for some reason, but the practical result is a bunch of teachers who get to have one or two peak years and thereafter look like they went back to slacking off.

Currently evaluation is about 50% observation, and and the rest a combination of processed and CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: PA: A Chance To Improve Teacher Evaluation

Betsy DeVos Held in Contempt. Department of Education fined $100,000. What’s Going On? | janresseger

Betsy DeVos Held in Contempt. Department of Education fined $100,000. What’s Going On? | janresseger

Betsy DeVos Held in Contempt. Department of Education fined $100,000. What’s Going On?

Last week should have been a bad week for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, but one wonders if it is possible to create a really meaningful punishment for somebody like Betsy DeVos—a punishment for allowing her staff to neglect their responsibility to protect vulnerable student loan borrowers who were defrauded by Corinthian Colleges.

Although last week it was announced that Betsy DeVos was being fined $100,000 for the Corinthian Colleges loan forgiveness disaster, it turns out that the agency—the Department of Education—is really being fined.  And even if DeVos had been personally fined, she is among the wealthiest members of President Trump’s cabinet, and the fine wouldn’t have made much of a difference given the size of her family’s fortune.

But the students who were defrauded are not so lucky. DeVos is responsible for causing what has to be financial misery for at least 16,000 students and parents who were billed for loan payments which had supposedly been cancelled.  These people were hounded by loan collectors, and some of them had their tax refunds and wages seized by the contractors who handle loan collections for the Department of Education.

For the NY Times, Erica Green and Stacy Cowley report: “Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of the Federal District Court in San Francisco ordered the Education Department to pay a $100,000 fine. The money will go toward various remedies for students who are owed debt relief after President Barack Obama’s Education Department found they were defrauded by the chain, Corinthian Colleges, which collapsed in 2014. The ruling is a victory for the more than 60,000 students who have been on a financial roller coaster since Corinthian imploded, after state and federal officials found that it lured students through deceptive recruitment practices and falsified job placement rates.”

Green and Cowley further explain the legal history of the case. DeVos has tried to implement a system by which ‘borrowers defense to repayment’ claims would be paid only in cases when borrowers were found to be without a living wage: “Last year, Magistrate Judge Kim found the system illegal, ruling that the Education Department had violated borrowers’ privacy by CONTINUE READING: Betsy DeVos Held in Contempt. Department of Education fined $100,000. What’s Going On? | janresseger

NYC Educator: Time for Voting

NYC Educator: Time for Voting

Time for Voting

In case you live in a cave or just hadn't heard, there's a New York State law that says you can take up to three hours off from work in order to vote in your local election. There's a form that's been made available to chapter leaders. The form is below and you can copy and paste it if you wish.

There are reasons why you ought to do this, whether or not you think you actually need the time. I mean sure, you can wake up at 4 instead of 4:30 that morning, go to your local polling place, and hope that you're the only one who had that idea. Maybe you won't have to wait on line. Then you'll be able to go to work and not miss a moment of whatever PD administration is offering that day.

On the other hand, this is now your right. It's a right that wasn't handed down from Mount Olympus by Zeus. Like the right to vote, it's a relatively new development. Now here's the thing about rights--if you don't assert them, you haven't actually got them. For example, a lot of people have the right to vote, but a whole lot of people can't be bothered. Your vote really matters. Look at the recent Queens DA race that came down to the wire.

Not persuaded? Look at who's President of the United States. Admittedly, he won the election fair and square by every possible measure (except votes cast). But a lot of people who'd voted for Barack Obama didn't bother to get off their keesters to vote for Hillary. And why should they have? The polls all said Hillary was a shoo-in. I didn't love Hillary myself, but with a choice between her and Trump, I voted for her. If I hadn't, I'd feel guilty.

Look at the UFT Contract. There are schools Bloomberg started that are still full of untenured teachers. The CONTINUE READING: NYC Educator: Time for Voting

Chicago: A Message from Karen Lewis | Diane Ravitch's blog

Chicago: A Message from Karen Lewis | Diane Ravitch's blog

Chicago: A Message from Karen Lewis

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When Lori ran for mayor, she gave us hope that she would represent real change in City Hall. She ran on our education platform and made a commitment to reverse years of failed policy and horrible planning by her predecessors.

She inherited a system built on revolving door leadership, misplaced investments, excessive standardized testing and few wraparound services for our students. And she took office on a promise of being a progressive, pro-education mayor who gave her word for an elected school board for our district, and said she would use her power to ensure that Chicago’s students have the resources they need regardless of where they live in this city.

It’s not too late.

For far too long, the students, families and educators of Chicago have been denied the high-quality neighborhood schools they deserve. Our students should be learning in safe and thriving environments with social workers, nurses and guidance counselors. Our educators deserve to work in well-equipped classrooms with manageable and enforceable class sizes. And Chicago’s families deserve an elected leader that CONTINUE READING: Chicago: A Message from Karen Lewis | Diane Ravitch's blog

NOLA Admin’s Book-Cooking, “Fix Your Gradebook” Email: More Teacher Responses | deutsch29

NOLA Admin’s Book-Cooking, “Fix Your Gradebook” Email: More Teacher Responses | deutsch29

NOLA Admin’s Book-Cooking, “Fix Your Gradebook” Email: More Teacher Responses

On October 26, 2019, I posted a piece entitled, “NOLA School Admin’s Book-Cooking, ‘Fix Your Gradebook’ Email.”

That post concerned an email sent by New Orleans-based Abramson Sci Academy’s assistant principal, Whitney, Omosefe, telling a number of teachers that they needed to perform some last-minute adjustments in order to reshape the distribution of their grades in order to produce a distribution favorable to B’s and virtually devoid of D’s and F’s.

From Omosefe’s email, entitled, “Fix Your Gradebook” and dated October 03, 2019:

Because the quarter is almost over, I’m taking a close look at gradebook averages to ensure that teachers remember and meet their gradebook goals. The goal is that 25% of scholars in your course should have an A, 40% should have a B, 25% should have a C, and <10% should have a D/F.

In my original post, I mentioed submitting a public records request to Abramson Sci Academy for Omosefe’s email as well as teacher responses to her email. At the time of my original post, I had not received an acknowledgement of my request.

However, on October 28, 2019, I received a response to my request, which included files for the 27 “fix your gradebook” emails from Omosefe to specific teachers as well as 13 responses from 11 of those teachers (one teacher offered three brief responses).

(Note: Anyone wishing to see these emails may submit a records request to Justin Pickel at prr@collegiateacademies.org.)

In each of Omosefe’s emails to teachers, she included information about the current grade distributions for these teachers’ classes. In most cases, the percentage of students failing was at zero, and most of the students (70% to 90%) had averages of C+ or higher.

Still, these results did not represent the desired grade distribution outcome, so, Omosefe offered suggestions presumably to make students’ grades more CONTINUE READING: NOLA Admin’s Book-Cooking, “Fix Your Gradebook” Email: More Teacher Responses | deutsch29

More Eyes Needed To Keep Watch On The Charter School Industry

More Eyes Needed To Keep Watch On The Charter School Industry

More Eyes Needed To Keep Watch On The Charter School Industry

Our oversight is “proactive and responsive.”
– José Cole-Gutiérrez, LAUSD Charter School Division

The number of charter schools is growing rapidly. Just three years ago the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) reported that it was “the largest district charter school authorizer in the nation, with about 250 independent and affiliated charter schools serving over 130,000 students.” Today, there are about 320 charter schools being overseen by the district. With the state ignoring the request for a temporary moratorium and the board unwilling to enforce their own, the number of these publicly funded private schools will only increase.

As much as the Charter School Division (CSD) aspires to being “proactive” in its oversight, the fact is that they are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of schools that operate under its jurisdiction. Since the money provided by the state does not cover the full cost of providing proper supervision, the district cannot provide the appropriate staffing to ensure that charters are operating within the bounds of the law. As a result, even a school like Granada Hills Charter High School, which is larger than 86% of all school districts nationwide, does not have one person from the CSD who is dedicated to their oversight. Instead, the designated staff member must split his time between several other schools.

Of course, the situation is made worse by the politicization of the school board. The California Charter School Association spends CONTINUE READING: More Eyes Needed To Keep Watch On The Charter School Industry

Mike Klonsky's Blog: Day 9 of Chicago teachers strike. Sun-Times gives a full page to the charter hustlers

Mike Klonsky's Blog: Day 9 of Chicago teachers strike. Sun-Times gives a full page to the charter hustlers

Day 9 of Chicago teachers strike. Sun-Times gives a full page to the charter hustlers

In the wake of horrific Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Univ. of Chicago economist Milton Friedman called the event "an opportunity to radically reform the educational system.”

For all my radical friends out there, by "radically reform," Friedman didn't mean fully democratizing public ed. Rather he meant nothing less than replacing all public schools with privately-run charters. With the help of fellow free-marketeers like Paul Vallas, who became the head of post-Katrina New Orleans schools, that's exactly what happened.

It was Vallas's successor at CPS, Arne Duncan who, as U.S. Secretary of Education, dotted Friedman's i's and crossed his t's by calling Katrina “the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans.”

It was then up to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to sum things up with his 2012 catchphrase, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."

Naomi Klein would later expose this shock-and-awe strategy of "disaster capitalism" in her best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine.

I'm recalling the shock-doctrine mentality while reading a full-page pitch in this morning's Sun-Times by the far-right Heritage Foundation, proposing to replace Chicago's public schools with privately-run charters in order to avoid the inconvenience of teacher strikes. Ironically, S-T is partially owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor.

The city is currently in the ninth day of a teacher's strike, with little prospect of a settlement in sight, and today's prophets (profiteers) of unregulated free markets are once again trying to CONTINUE READING: Mike Klonsky's Blog: Day 9 of Chicago teachers strike. Sun-Times gives a full page to the charter hustlers

NEA President Lily Eskelsen García: "We are fighting for who we are supposed to be..." #CTA #redfored #utla #scusd #oea #nea

NEA President Lily Eskelsen García:

"We are fighting for who we are supposed to be..." 

NEA President Lily Eskelsen García speaks at the October 2019 CTA State Council of Education.

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CURMUDGUCATION: CAP Wants The Feds To Boost Charters

CURMUDGUCATION: CAP Wants The Feds To Boost Charters

CAP Wants The Feds To Boost Charters

The Center for American Progress is supposedly a left-tilted thinky tank, but when it comes to education, they really love corporate reform. Here on this blog, I literally ran out of ways to title sa post "CAP is still working hard to push common core" (seriously-- just use the search bar in that upper left corner).

CAP became a little rudderless when Hillary Clinton's candidacy failed; till then it had served as a holding tank for Clinton staffers. But they're still plugging away to throw their weight behind neoliberal corporate education reform disruption.

Take this recent piece from Neil Campbell. He's a "Director, Innovation" whose expertise is K-12 education. His focus is personalized [sic] learning, charter schools and "effective use of student data." Campbell came from Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (2years) because A) all the best progressives come from the Bush camp and B) in the last decade, roughly three people have become new figures in the corporate reformster movement--everyone else just keeps cycling between the various groups. Campbell also worked at USED under Arne Duncan (3 years), did some consulting free lancing, and further back we find him as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He studied economics, political science, and business administration--oh, and he interned at Lowes. So the basis for his "expertise" in K-12 is... a mystery. Actually, the big mystery is how Duncan hired him with nothing but the BCG gig, the Lowe's internship, and two years as manager at something call (r)evolution under his belt. I'm betting there's a story there.

His role at CAP involves some fancy juggling. On the one hand, he has written some pieces with strong opposition to the Trump/DeVos administration. On the other hand, he's been pushing charters since he arrived at CAP, mostly claiming they'll be the great equalizer.

So here he is last week, sticking up for the federal Charter Schools Program. You may remember the CSP as a long-standing federal program used to give entrepreneurs start-up money to get into CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: CAP Wants The Feds To Boost Charters

Sweet Child of Mine | Teacher in a strange land

Sweet Child of Mine | Teacher in a strange land

Sweet Child of Mine

Like—one hopes—most Americans, I watch the ongoing story of children separated from their parents at our southern border with horror and sorrow. There will never be anything even approaching reconciliation or forgiveness for the despicable and shameful behavior of those who hatred and fear of ‘the other’ drives policy enactment like this. My biggest worry is that, with all the other shocks and distractions we’re juggling in 2019, these children will fade into the background.

Last week, we learned that the number of separated and ‘lost’ children is higher than has been reported:  U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border early in the Trump administration, the ACLU said, bringing the total number of children separated since July 2017 to more than 5,400. Children from that period can be difficult to find because the government had inadequate tracking systems. Volunteers working with the ACLU are searching for some of them and their parents by going door-to-door in Guatemala and Honduras.

One facet of the story I follow even more closely: the very young children who have been recklessly and deliberately removed from their parents, resulting in ‘lost’ identification information, and are put in foster care here, and eventually even deemed eligible for adoption by American parents.

There have been any number of stories about children too young to speak for CONTINUE READING: Sweet Child of Mine | Teacher in a strange land

Study: Poor teens and tweens spend more time on screens than rich ones - Vox

Study: Poor teens and tweens spend more time on screens than rich ones - Vox

Poor kids spend nearly 2 hours more on screens each day than rich kids
Kids from more affluent families have more access to tech but use it less.

Tweens and teens from families that make less than $35,000 per year spent nearly two hours more with screen media each day than their peers with incomes over $100,000, according to new data from media nonprofit Common Sense.

Lower-income teens (13- to 18-year-olds) spent more than 8.5 hours each day on smartphones, tablets, video games, and other screen media, compared with six hours and 49 minutes for their higher-income peers. Lower-income tweens (8- to 12-year-olds) used screen media for nearly six hours a day, compared with four hours for higher-income tweens.

That’s despite higher-income kids having universally greater ownership of all matter of screens, from smartphones to computers to TVs, according to the study.

This data reflects a number of socio-economic differences, including access to child care and extracurricular activities as well as how technology is perceived. It also marks a reversal in how we understand the so-called digital divide: it’s no longer just access to technology but also the ability to restrain that access.

These findings have been pretty consistent over the last few years, said Vicky Rideout, the report’s lead researcher. But more research needs to be done to explain and understand the reasons for the disparity and what repercussions it has.

“We’re not really saying this is a bad thing or a good thing, but that this is a difference,” CONTINUE READING: Study: Poor teens and tweens spend more time on screens than rich ones - Vox

Warren's education policy proposals links housing and education

Warren's education policy proposals links housing and education

Elizabeth Warren shows she understands education in ways charter advocates did not
Linking housing and education gets at the root of the problem in our education system

Wast week, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. In addition to matters of curriculum and instruction, factors outside the school — food, housing, transportation, safety, recreation — also affect the degree to which students learn. It’s hard to do homework when you don’t have a home to go to. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

Warren’s plan, A Great Public School Education for Every Student, is one of the most comprehensive education policy proposals by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen. The cornerstone of the plan is a massive increase in the roughly $16 billion in federal funding allocated to the Title I program, targeted at schools with high concentrations of low-income students. The plan would quadruple the current yearly funding, adding $450 billion over the next 10 years.

Warren’s proposal also calls for an additional $20 billion for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which provides fiscal resources and legal protections for students with special needs. Her education plan works in tandem with her equally robust housing proposal to get at the heart of racial disparities in education. CONTINUE READING: Warren's education policy proposals links housing and education

EdAction in Congress October 27, 2019 - Education Votes

EdAction in Congress October 27, 2019 - Education Votes
EdAction in Congress October 27, 2019

Push for census funding for our students’ sake

Funding for next year’s census is among the key issues still to be decided as Congress struggles to finalize spending bills for FY2020, which began Oct. 1. The census is vitally important to America’s students because it determines the allocation of billions of dollars in federal funding for public education, including Title I schools serving more than 24 million students from low-income families, special education grants to the states, and school breakfast and lunch programs. The census also governs distribution of funds to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that keeps millions of families out of poverty and has lasting benefits for children’s health and academic success.

To ensure the correct amounts are allocated for these programs, everyone must be counted. The Census Bureau needs to hire enough staff to conduct outreach everywhere, especially with communities of color, immigrants, and low-income people where undercounting tends to be a problem. Tell your representatives to push for properly funding the 2020 Census. TAKE ACTION

Support the Voting Rights Advancement Act

The Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 (H.R. 4), passed by the House Judiciary Committee last week, would once again require states and localities with histories of voter discrimination to seek approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before making any changes in their election laws. The measure is a direct response to the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby v. Holder, which invalidated key provisions of the Voting Rights Act first passed in 1965 to address persistent and purposeful discrimination—through literacy tests, poll taxes, intimidation, threats, and violence—that curtailed political participation for millions of Americans. In the absence of critical federal oversight, many states implemented laws that restricted voting in the 2016 and 2018 elections. Urge your representatives to support the Voting Rights Advancement Act. TAKE ACTION

NEA members discuss homework gap and immigration with Congress

Members of Congress featured NEA members’ views on two key issues: access to digital resources in rural areas and the harmful impact of immigration raids. Anthony Angelini, a teacher at New Oxford Middle School in Pennsylvania, stressed the importance of high-speed internet and the role of E-Rate in bringing it to rural areas at an Oct. 21 congressional field hearing in Gettysburg, “Harvesting the Digital Age: Connecting our Communities for a Better Future,” hosted by Reps. Abby Finkenauer (D-IA) and John Joyce (R-PA), chairwoman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship. Angela Wolf, a teacher at Briggs Chaney Middle School in Maryland, was a panelist at an Oct. 25 event on Capitol Hill, “A Briefing on How Immigration and Customs Enforcement Actions Harm Communities,” hosted by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Cheers and Jeers

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is leading the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (H.R. 2694), which would help prevent employers from forcing pregnant women out of the workplace and help ensure that employers provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant women who want to keep working.

Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) is leading the Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019 (H.R. 3), which passed out of the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees last week. The bill would end the ban on Medicare negotiating directly with drug companies, which would in turn help lower drug prices for all Americans.

Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) for making the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (H.R. 3463) bipartisan by becoming cosponsors. The bill would set a minimum nationwide standard for collective bargaining rights provided by the states.

Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) led a bipartisan sign-on letter urging House leadership to include at least a two-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools program in any end-of-year legislation.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announced that she opposes Steven Menashi’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which NEA strongly opposes as well.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairwoman Karen Bass (D-CA) led a letter to Senate leadership opposing Steven Menashi’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. All CBC members representing districts covered by the Second Circuit also signed the letter: Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), and Antonio Delgado (D-NY).

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was held in contempt for violating a court order to cease collecting loan payments after May 2018 from former Corinthian College students. More than 16,000 students were told they had payments due when that was not the case and nearly 2,000 lost wages or tax refunds as a result, the Washington Post reported.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), along with Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Mike Braun (R-IN), introduced S. 2682, which would permanently reauthorize SOAR, the District of Columbia’s voucher program.

EdAction in Congress October 27, 2019 - Education Votes