by Benjamin Rosenberg | Mar 19, 2020 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be a rather ordinary hearing, with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifying to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee about her department’s budget request for the next fiscal year. But in her opening remarks, Sen. Patty Murray of...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Mar 5, 2020 | Education
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promoted the Trump administration’s school choice program and criticized America’s “antiquated approach to education” Thursday before a Senate subcommittee while defending her department’s proposed $66.56 billion budget...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Mar 1, 2020 | Education, Featured
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — During his freshman year at The Citadel, Matthew Miller went to events with the College Republicans — because they were the only political activists on campus. Then he decided to create an alternative option. The Citadel, a military...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Mar 1, 2020 | Topics
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — With all the resources he put into the state and the support he had from the African American community, it was almost a foregone conclusion that Joe Biden would win South Carolina. The only question was by how much. The former vice...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Feb 20, 2020 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Universities need to think more broadly about their roles and can learn from corporations‘ approaches to serving their customers, University of Virginia President James E. Ryan said Thursday in a speech at the conservative American Enterprise Institute....
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Feb 20, 2020 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposed sweeping changes to school meal regulations, overturning key pieces of former first lady Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, worries public health experts who fear an increase in childhood obesity...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Sports
WASHINGTON — Student athletes may decide to choose to play sports at universities that will allow them to profit from their name, image and likeness if Congress doesn’t act, Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, an Ohio Republican and former Ohio State football star, said Tuesday....
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Feb 5, 2020 | Education, Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will prioritize supporting working families by mandating paid leave and lowering barriers to education. Members of Congress from both parties said they agree with the sentiments, but disagree on how to implement the...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 29, 2020 | Topics
WASHINGTON — The Senate should approve a bill passed by the House earlier this week to give schools more money to teach about the Holocaust, the head of the Anti-Defamation League said Wednesday. Testifying at a House Oversight Committee Hearing, Jonathan Greenblatt,...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 16, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Military suicide rates have reached record highs in recent years, a problem that President Donald Trump’s nominee for under secretary of the Army said Thursday reducing the number of suicides would be one of his top priorities. At his confirmation...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — It seems a foregone conclusion that President Donald Trump will be acquitted of impeachment charges by the Republican majority in the Senate. But that didn’t stop a group of frustrated current and former Republicans who want Trump to be removed from...
