Your voices are making a difference! Last week, in a passionate opening statement at the first Capitol Hill hearing on the issue in 17 years, Rep. John Larson (D-CT) called the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) “blatantly unfair” and said, “We need not only a hearing—we need a vote.” Rep. Jodey Arrington […]

  Recent events underscore the gap—actually, it’s more like a chasm—between two visions for education now before Congress. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee last week, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona stressed that the Biden administration’s FY2025 education budget prioritizes students, educators, and public schools. It also calls for universal preschool, a national paid leave program, […]

Fellow Members, Following months of delays, Congress ended the week on the verge of finally fulfilling a basic function: it passed the remaining bills to support education and other vital public services into the fall, closing the books on FY2024 funding and averting a government shutdown. The vote followed months of wasted time, caused largely […]