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Bill Would Cut Tax Loopholes To Keep Interest Rates For Student Loans Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Student Loan Interest Rates, Stuent Debt, Federal Student Loans, Tax Loopholes, Student Loan Interest, George Miller, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Education News

As President Barack Obama makes his way across the country to slam an impending increase in federal student loan-interest rates, a group of congressio...

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Obama Labor Board Appointee Shared Insider Secrets, Violating Ethics Code, Report Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Nlrb, Boeing, Video, Labor, Brian-Hayes, NLRB Boeing, Ethics, Labor Board, John Kline, National Labor Relations Board, George Miller, Labor Unions, Investigation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- An inspector general's investigation has found that a recent appointee to the National Labor Relations Board violated the agency's ethic...

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GOP Trying To Bury Investigation: House Dem

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Nlrb, Labor, Video, Gop, Oversight, John Kline, Democrats, George Miller, National Labor Relations Board, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Republicans Thursday accusing the GOP of trying to keep portions of an investigatio...

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Big GOP Donors Get Carveout Stiffing Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.20.2012

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are trying to pass a transportation bill that would strip certain workers of their minimum-wage and overtime protectio...

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GOP Bill Would Strip Workers Of Overtime, Minimum Wage Protections

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Labor, Minimum Wage, Video, Workers, Railroads, Railways, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, John Mica, Labor Unions, Overtime, George Miller, Ray Lahood, John-Mica-House-Transportation-Committee, Transportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A little-noted provision in the House Republicans' controversial energy and transportation bill would strip several thousand workers wit...

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Broad Coalition Argues Bills Undercut Brown v. Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Education News, Education, American Federation of Teachers, No Child Left Behind, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Harkin, 112th Congress, John Kline, Education Reform, George Miller, Education News

A broad coalition of 38 civil rights, education reform and business groups sent House education chairman John Kline a scathing letter Wednesday, descr...

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New GOP Education Bills Unlikely To Go Far

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Education News, Video, Education, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Teacher Effectiveness, School Funding, Education Politics, 112th Congress, John Kline, School Choice, George Miller, Federal Government Education, House Republicans, Education News

Just in time for the law's 10th anniversary this past Sunday, House Republicans led by Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) have released draft legislation for r...

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Disgraced Senator Resurfaces Lobbying For Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Lobbying, Big Coal, Mining, Lobbyists, Crandall Canyon, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Coal, Larry Craig, Murray Energy, George Miller, Shelly-Moore-Capito, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Having left Congress after an embarrassing 2007 arrest, former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has quietly reemerged in Washington as a lobby...

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Occupy Wall Street's Message Gains Momentum In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Occupy Wall Street is finding a louder voice in Congress as lawmakers invoked its rhetoric repeatedly Wednesday in attempts to crack dow...

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How One Miner Took On Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2011

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- On a July morning four years ago, Charles Scott Howard left his home in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and drove his pickup...

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Duncan's Waiver Proposal Scales Back Federal Role In Education Standards Enforcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Education News, Kevin Carey, Arne Duncan, Conservatives, Federalism, No Child Left Behind, Al Franken, Michael Bennet, Education Sector, States Rights, 112th Congress, No Child Left Behind Waivers, John Kline, Tea Party, George Miller, Ed-Lection 2012, Education News

Much has been said about the ineffectiveness of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping, decade-old federal education law that uses student performance on...

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House Dems Accuse Issa Of Shilling For 'Corporate Interests' With NLRB Subpoena

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Boeing, Nlrb, John Conyers, Labor, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Darrell Issa, George Miller, National Labor Relations Board, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News

This item has been updated with comment from Issa's office. House Democrats accused Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Friday of overstepping his boun...

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Debt Ceiling Deal: Big Questions For K-12

Education Week | Michele McNeil | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: K-12 Education, Education, Debt Ceiling, Andy Rotherham, Education Reform, George Miller, Obama Debt Ceiling, Committee for Education Funding, Debt Ceiling in Education, Education News

As a vote nears in Congress to lift the federal debt ceiling and stave off a financial default, education advocates are just beginning to take stock o...

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Educators Worry Teachers Are Not Getting Adequate Training, Evaluation

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Education, House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Loebsack, No Child Left Behind, Teacher Evaluation, Race to the Top, Reform, Teachers, George Miller, Joe Heck, Education News

WASHINGTON -- Education leaders told a House committee Wednesday to focus on crafting comprehensive blueprint for teacher evaluations as Congress move...

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Sen. Michael Bennet Expects Senate NCLB Draft Ready By Fall

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.24.2011

WASHINGTON -- As Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) sees it, the holdup on overhauling the nation's sweeping education law, No Child Left Behind, has littl...

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Parents Fight Against Failing Schools Nationwide

Ben Austin | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Texas, Education, Mississippi, Parent Trigger, Education Reform, George Miller, Buffalo New York, Education News

Across our country, parents everywhere are finding out that they have more in common with each other than they do with the defenders of the status quo.

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Leading House Dem Explains Vote To End Obama Admin's Foreclosure Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Foreclosure, Hamp, Making Home Affordable, George Miller, Home Affordable Modification Program, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Eighteen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sided with Republicans in a symbolic vote to terminate the Obama administration'...

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Congress Lowering Standards for Teachers; Hiding Truth from Poor, Minority Parents

John Affeldt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Equity, Education, Continuing Resolution, Teacher Training, Highly-Qualified-Teachers, Congress, Teach for America, George Miller, Senator-Harkin, Education News

The provision at issue proposes to call novice teachers still learning how to teach in alternative preparation programs on nights and weekends "highly qualified" under No Child Left Behind.

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Congress Poised to Call Novice Teachers "Highly Qualified" and Allow Concentration in Poor, Minority Schools

John Affeldt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Highly Qualified Teachers, Arne Duncan, US Senate, Appropriations, Omnibus Spending Bill, u.s. Department of Education, Teachers, Teach for America, George Miller, Education, Politics News

Buried deep in the nearly 2,000 page Senate omnibus appropriations bill that Harry Reid pulled Thursday night was an amendment slipped in on Tuesday t...

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House Education Chair: U.S. School System Is 'Failing Our Country'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. students ranked "average" in an international education assessment released on Tuesday, but House Education and Labor Chairman Geor...

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House To Vote Wednesday On Child Nutrition Bill, Cuts To Food Stamps Possible

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) were joined by other Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday in calling ...

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House Passes Bill On Student Athlete Concussions

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The House has voted to set federal guidelines on managing concussions among student athletes and protecting young people suffering head...

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A Green Victory in Richmond, California

David Helvarg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chevron, Casinos, San Francisco Bay Area, 2010 Elections, Senator Feinstein, Ken Salazar, George Miller, Sierra Club, Green News

The recent elections were a setback for national environmental advocates. But for a small city near San Francisco, it demonstrated that poor communities can still control their shorelines and, perhaps, their own destinies.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Patrick Hughes on Red Hill

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

It's not really necessary that you be fully schooled in the great Australian action films of seventies and eighties -- or even in American westerns --...

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Lawmakers Speak Out In Defense Of The Minimum Wage

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Elections, Linda McMahon, Charles Grassley, Minimum Wage, John Raese, Chuck Grassley, George Miller, Jim Demint, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Miller, Elections 2010, Politics News

Rep. George Miller (D-Cali.), who led the effort in Congress to raise the minimum wage in 2007, is taking issue with Republican candidates' recent sta...

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