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CONGRESS
U.S. House of Representatives Republicans and Democrats have now both published the list of members who will serve on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce held its first hearing of the 118^th Congress titled “American Education in Crisis.”

ADMINISTRATION
The U.S. Department of Education noticed the next meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI). The meeting will be held February 28-March 2, 2023.

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued a statement on ED and the U.S. Department of Justice filing a legal brief with the Supreme Court of the United States on the Biden Administration’s student debt relief program.

President Joe Biden delivered the annual State of the Union address and released a fact sheet on his “Unity Agenda.”

SUPREME COURT
Five former U.S. Department of Education Secretaries, 128 House Republicans and 43 Republican Senators filed amicus briefs in the Federal student loan forgiveness case on which the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments at the end of February.

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

Penn Hill Group provides a list of grant opportunities and summaries for select grants. Please visit our website for more information.

Education News Headlines
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What’s a college degree worth? States start to demand colleges share the data. [The Washington Post]

Rethinking College Admissions and Applications with an Eye on AI [The 74]

Florida’s AP African American studies ban should raise alarm elsewhere, lawmaker says [NPR]

College enrollment gaps: How academic preparation influences opportunity [The Brookings Institution]

Fake College Prompts Scrutiny [Inside Higher Ed]

Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Mount Sinai medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings [Higher Ed Dive]

Short-Term Pell a Priority for Skills First Coalition [Inside Higher Ed]

Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix [Inside Higher Ed]

Op Ed: See Workers as Workers, Not as a College Credential [The New York Times]

Class of 2022 Left $3.6B in Pell Grants Unclaimed [Inside Higher Ed]

Designing Assignments in the ChatGPT Era [Inside Higher Ed]

Op Ed: DeLauro: For-profit online program management companies are the new predators in higher education [K-12 Dive]

Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019 [Inside Higher Ed]

Students Say Mental-Health Breaks From Class Help Them Succeed. Here’s How Colleges Are Responding. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]

How Student Loan Forgiveness Could Win at the Supreme Court [Inside Higher Ed]

What can work colleges teach the rest of higher ed? [Higher Ed Dive]

Some see liberal arts education as elitist. Why it’s really pragmatic. [The Washington Post]

Maryland colleges are trying to shake tepid enrollment. Results are mixed. [The Washington Post]

Plan to end mandate for LSAT, other law school admission exams stalls in key vote The Washington Post]

Education Department hints at possible delay of new FAFSA [Inside Higher Ed]

A new generation of conservative student newspapers [Inside Higher Ed]

House ed hearing highlights areas of division, agreement [Higher Ed Dive]

House Education Committee Ready to Tackle Short-Term Pell [Inside Higher Ed]

Should professors eliminate deadlines? [Inside Higher Ed]

Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies [The New York Times]

Committee News and Schedule, Schedule for House and Senate Floor:

House Majority Leader
Press Release: Scalise: Republicans Won’t Allow Dems’ Reckless Spending to Continue

House Minority Leader
Press Release: Leader Jeffries Statement on President Biden’s State of the Union Address

Senate Minority Leader
Remarks: “Reverse Robin Hood”: Democrats’ Student Loan Socialism Robs the Working Class

House Committee on Education & The Workforce
Statements and Webcast from Full Committee Hearing on “American Education in Crisis.”

Press Release: Republican PELL Act Will Revolutionize the Workforce

Press Release: Foxx, Cassidy Call Out Administration’s Potential $1 Trillion Student Loan Repayment Scheme, Rushed Public Review Process

Press Release: Foxx, Duncan Lead Amicus Brief on Biden’s Student Loan Scheme

Press Release: Foxx: “College-for-All” Mentality Failed Students

Blog: Mr. President, the State of Our Union is Troubling

U.S. Department of Education and the Administration:

White House Press Release: Excerpts from President Biden’s State of the Union Address as Prepared for Delivery

White House Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Releases New Data Showing 26 Million People in All 50 States Applied or Were Automatically Eligible for One-Time Student Debt Relief

White House Fact Sheet: New Data Show the American Rescue Plan and Other Pandemic Relief Funds Have Helped 18 Million College Students

IES Press Release: High School Counseling and College Financial Aid

Legislative Movement in Congress:

H.R.460 — To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide additional amounts of loan forgiveness to teachers of English learners and teachers of bilingual and dual language immersion students, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Espaillat, Adriano [Rep.-D-NY-13] (Introduced 01/24/2023) Cosponsors: (9)
Committees: House – Education and the Workforce
Latest Action: House – 01/24/2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

H.R.509 — To prevent class-based loan forgiveness for Federal student loans under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 without the explicit appropriation of funds by Congress for such purpose.
Sponsor: Davidson, Warren [Rep.-R-OH-8] (Introduced 01/25/2023) Cosponsors: (11)
Committees: House – Education and the Workforce
Latest Action: House – 01/25/2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

H.R.654 — To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, to add a work-study program for off-campus community service at selected after-school activities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Carson, Andre [Rep.-D-IN-7] (Introduced 01/31/2023)
Cosponsors: (12)
Committees: House – Education and the Workforce
Latest Action: House – 01/31/2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

H.R.657 — To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to clarify the career services provided to adults and dislocated workers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Castro, Joaquin [Rep.-D-TX-20] (Introduced 01/31/2023)
Cosponsors: (0)
Committees: House – Education and the Workforce
Latest Action: House – 01/31/2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

H.R. 741 — A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that an employee’s “regular rate” for purposes of calculating overtime compensation will not be affected by certain additional payments.
Sponsor: Calvert, Ken [Rep.-R-CA-41] (Introduced 02/02/2023)
Cosponsors: (0)
Committees: House – Education and the Workforce
Latest Action: House – 02/02/2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Press Release: Rep. Calvert Reintroduces Legislation to Protect Employee Bonuses

H.R. 793 — A bill to extend Federal Pell Grant eligibility of certain short-term programs.
Sponsor: Johnson, Bill [Rep.-R-OH-6] (Introduced 02/02/2023)
Cosponsors: (3)
Committees: House – Education and the Workforce
Latest Action: House – 02/02/2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Press Release: Rep. Bill Johnson Introduces JOBS Act Legislation to Address Job Shortages

H.R.961 – To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the period of eligibility for Federal Pell Grants, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Stevens, Haley M. [D-MI-11] (Introduced 02/09/2023) Cosponsors: (1)
Committees: House – Education and the Workforce
02/09/2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Press Release: Reps. Stevens and Gomez Introduce Bill to Expand Pell Grant Eligibility.

S. 16 — A bill to prohibit the award of Federal funds to an institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with a student-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or to employees of the institution or site, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] (Introduced 01/23/2023)
Cosponsors: (17)
Committees: Senate – Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Latest Action:
Senate – 01/23/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

S.72 — A bill to prevent class-based loan forgiveness for Federal student loans under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 without the explicit appropriation of funds by Congress for such purpose.
Sponsor: Scott, Rick [Sen.-R-FL] (Introduced 01/25/2023) Cosponsors: (4)
Committees: Senate – Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Latest Action: Senate – 01/25/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Press Release: Sen. Rick Scott Leads Legislation to Stop Biden’s Mass Debt Cancellation at Expense of Taxpayers

S.183 — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, to add a work-study program for off-campus community service at selected after-school activities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Booker, Cory A. [Sen.-D-NJ] (Introduced 01/31/2023)
Cosponsors: (1)
Committees: Senate – Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Latest Action: Senate – 01/31/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

S. 236 — A bill to direct the Secretary of Labor to award grants to develop, administer, and evaluate early childhood education apprenticeships, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Young, Todd [Sen.-R-IN] (Introduced 02/02/2023)
Cosponsors: (2)
Committees: Senate – Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Latest Action: Senate – 02/02/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

S.343 – A bill to support the establishment of an apprenticeship college consortium.
Sponsor: Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] (Introduced 02/09/2023) Cosponsors: (1)
Committees: Senate – Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Latest Action: 02/09/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Federal Education Training and Grant Opportunities, Notices:

ED Comment Request: Application Forms and Instructions for the Fulbright-Hays Training Grants: Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (CFDA Number 84.022A) and Faculty Research Abroad (CFDA Number 84.019A). Comments due on or before February 22, 2023.

ED Comment Request: Request for Information on Topics To Address via the National Center for Education Research’s R&D Centers. Comment due on or before March 6, 2023.

ED Notice: Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records-National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Longitudinal, Cross-Sectional, and International Studies

ED Notice: National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity