Bob Carey in Stars & Stripes: 119th Congress Should Restore Veterans’ Education Rights
The Senate education committee held a confirmation hearing today for Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education.
Congress should move quickly to approve Ms. McMahon’s nomination so she can begin correcting the past four years of regulatory overreach at the Department of Education, National Defense Committee Executive Director Bob Carey writes in Stars & Stripes.
President Trump, Education Secretary-nominee McMahon and the 119th Congress “have an opportunity, if not a mandate, to undo the federal overreach of the past four years, enshrine veterans’ right to freely use their earned benefits, and implement guardrails to prevent the regulatory system from being politicized. And they should act immediately to get it done.”
Mr. Carey identifies several policy priorities Congress and the Trump administration should focus on, which are also outlined in a memo National Defense Committee sent to Congress last week:
- Rescind unnecessary and biased regulations, including 90/10 and the Gainful Employment rules
- Pass legislation to protect online learning
- Clear the backlog of “program participation agreements”
- Provide stability for online coursework partnerships by codifying the bundled services exemption
- Ensure diverse, qualified veterans representation in negotiated rulemaking
- Empower, don’t punish, alternative paths to higher education
Read Mr. Carey’s full op-ed here.
