An influential Republican lawmaker on Friday introduced a bill that would abolish the U.S. Department of Education’s gainful-employment rule and outlaw the Obama administration’s forthcoming college-ratings system, among other things.
Rep. Virginia Foxx’s bill, "The Supporting Academic Freedom Through Regulatory Relief Act," comes on the heels of a bipartisan Congressional task force’s report that ripped federal regulation of colleges. Ms. Foxx, a former community-college president and professor, is chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s higher-education subcommittee.
Also among the things outlawed by the bill is the definition of the credit hour that the department rolled out in 2010.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/bill-would-outlaw-college-ratings-system-and-gainful-employment-rule/94133