Whitman-Hanson Education Association

  There was a fair amount of congressional activity last week.  In a nearly party-line vote of 216-211, the House passed the NEA-opposed H.R. 6703, the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. The bill ignores the imminent expiration of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that make health insurance affordable for over 20 million Americans. Come […]

  Congress addressed key issues last week, with mixed results. The Senate failed to advance the NEA-supported Lower Health Care Costs Act (S. 3385), which would have provided a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies and preserved access to health care for over 20 million Americans—entrepreneurs, self-employed contractors, and part-time workers whose employers don’t offer […]

  Thanksgiving weekend was the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), first passed as the Education for All Handicapped Children on Nov. 29, 1975 (the law was renamed IDEA in 1990). “Fifty years ago, with the passage of IDEA, America made a promise to students with disabilities and their families—that they would be […]