Last week, the Senate took up the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684), a $1 trillion bipartisan public works bill that includes an extension of the Secure Rural Schools program, lead pipe removal, and electrified school buses. This week, following passage of the bipartisan bill, we expect the Senate to take up a $3.5…
In response to the failure of the For the People Act (S. 1) to muster the 60-vote supermajority necessary to advance in the Senate, Democrats are revising the bill in hopes of attracting more support (all 50 Republican senators voted against it earlier this summer). The legislation remains among the Biden administration’s top priorities. According…
By Amanda Menas “Can you imagine, and I don’t have to imagine because I lived it, being in a building full of students where they couldn’t drink the water,” said Cynthia Sherman, a high school science teacher in Michigan. In the middle of a pandemic as students and educators of all ages were urged to…
In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Senate voted 67-32 to take up a bipartisan bill providing $1 trillion for roads, bridges, rail, transit, water and other physical infrastructure programs. The biggest federal public works bill in more than a decade, it includes an extension of the Secure Rural Schools program, lead pipe…
The House paved the way to a historic investment in our nation’s students, educators and schools by passing H.R. 4502, which includes the FY2022 appropriations bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. Overall, U.S. Department of Education funding would increase by 41 percent next year—the biggest percentage increase for any agency.…