Brown urges president cancel federal student loan debt
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. Thursday in introducing a bicameral resolution outlining a bold plan for President Joe Biden to tackle the student loan debt crisis by using existing authority under the Higher Education Act to cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt for federal student loan borrowers. The resolution calls on the President to use executive authority to cancel student loan debt and ensure there is no tax liability for Federal student loan borrowers resulting from administrative debt cancellation.
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WASHINGTON The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release guidance on school reopenings in the coming week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Friday, amid rising tensions about how best to send students and teachers back into the classroom. Among the things that we need to do to make sure that schools are safe is to make sure that the community spread of the disease is down, Walensky said during a White House briefing.
She continued: We are actively working on the guidance, the official guidance, which will be released in the week ahead.
The guidance will come amid a national debate about when and how to reopen schools safely, as fear of spreading the coronavirus has closed them and forced classes online amid the pandemic.
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Teacher unions and school boards have clashed over how to safely reopen schools.
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Special education and COVID-19
Remote learning through the pandemic has caused challenges for families of students with learning disabilities. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images, FILE
While teachers unions and school systems clash over what is considered a safe return to in-person learning and President Joe Biden looks to reopen a majority of K-8 schools in 100 days, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it could be possible to get back to school safely without hinging the return to classrooms on vaccines.
Minneapolis
“I am labor,” Gov. Tim Walz declared on the campaign trail in 2018. “I stand with labor, and as governor, I will keep Minnesota a labor state.”
True to his pledge, the budget Walz released in the opening days of the 2021 Legislature reflected the priorities of the state’s main teachers union, Education Minnesota. Pandemic recession notwithstanding, Walz called for $745 million in new K-12 spending and vowed to tie education funding to inflation, a move the union has sought for years.
Right away, GOP lawmakers jabbed back, calling for across-the-board cuts instead. “The schools made the decision not to be in the classroom when science showed they could be,” said Republican Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, of East Gull Lake. “They chose the teachers union and the governor not to have the kids in the classroom … and now they’re asking us to bail them out for that.”