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…
The Senate HELP Committee announced it will hold a confirmation hearing for Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Education, on Thursday, February 13. The National Defense Committee urges Congress to approve Ms. McMahon’s…
On Veterans Day, we honor the brave Americans who answered the call of duty and served in uniform. But it’s also a reminder of a difficult reality: Our military is experiencing a recruiting crisis. And our educational benefits policies are…
Last month, National Defense Committee executive director Bob Carey participated in a forum hosted by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE). The event highlighted the negative impacts of the U.S. Department of Education’s selective regulation against career-education institutions and distance learning…
The U.S. military is in the midst of a recruiting crisis, and the U.S. Department of Education’s and the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affair’s micro-management of how and where military members and veterans can use their earned education benefits is…
Military members’ and veterans’ education benefits are not grants from the federal government; they are earned benefit payments in exchange for services rendered, National Defense Committee executive director Bob Carey writes in the Odgen Standard-Examiner. But the U.S. Department of…
Military members and veterans aren’t typical college students. They are usually older than their classmates, often times have families, are looking to get the skills they need for their next jobs, and are also balancing the integration from military service…
The Department of Education has gone to great lengths to single out, penalize, and publicly smear career colleges, faith-based schools, and other innovative, non-traditional higher education options. These exertions are part of a bigger effort to prop up and maintain…
Over the past decade, the Department of Education has painted career colleges as predatory schools eager to prey on naïve military veterans to feather their own pockets. It has been aided in this public smear campaign by allies on Capitol…
Led by the National Defense Committee, a coalition of military and veterans’ organizations called on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona today to investigate “disproportionate representation” on the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committees. Five organizations representing a broad range of military…
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