{"id":19402,"date":"2024-11-05T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=19402"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:39:32","slug":"lewis-burke-associates-llc-education-and-workforce-policy-newsletter-november-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2024\/11\/05\/lewis-burke-associates-llc-education-and-workforce-policy-newsletter-november-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis-Burke Associates LLC Education and Workforce Policy Newsletter – November 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

A View from Washington:<\/strong><\/p>\n

While we are only days away from the 2024 election, we may not have immediate knowledge this Wednesday of the political shifts in Congress or even the White House with election results and counts anticipated to take days or longer. For education and workforce issues, a return to a Trump Administration would have the most impact with a major shuffle of political appointees in January and a potentially long list of U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Labor (DOL) regulatory reversals. Lewis-Burke\u2019s chart summarizing the possible outlook for various education policies under various election scenarios can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Congress, we are likely to see new leaders and new priorities with potential shifts in party control in both chambers, a number of congressional retirements, and anticipated new leadership in the House Committee on\u00a0Education and the Workforce. Details on the potential leadership on\u00a0relevant committees of interest are included below. Big items are already on the legislative agenda in 2025, as Congress will have to quickly address a looming federal debt ceiling and face expiration of important\u00a0Tax Cuts and Jobs Act\u00a0<\/em>provisions that will be expiring. Notably, there has been discussion among the current House Republican leadership and relevant tax committees surrounding the tax on private college endowment income and education institutions\u2019 tax-exempt status. If the 2017 tax debate is a guide, other proposals impacting education could also return, including modifications to unrelated business income tax (UBIT), tuition remission benefits, and\u00a0taxability of student benefits.<\/p>\n

With a few weeks left in this remaining Congress, there is both a must pass and a growing wish list of bills on the agenda. Current federal government funding expires on December 20, but there have been no substantive negotiations between the two chambers on the wide variation on spending priorities, including for ED programs and student aid. Congress may be forced to push another continuing resolution (CR) into the new year. There is also congressional interest, but maybe not enough time, to see passage this year of various reauthorizations that could impact education and workforce programs, detailed further below. Congressional ire with education institution\u2019s responses to antisemitism has and will continue this fall, with reports of the Senate leader planning a vote on the House passed\u00a0Antisemitism Awareness Act<\/em>,\u00a0H.R. 6090<\/a>.\u00a0 Chairwoman Foxx (R-NC) also released this past week her investigative report,\u00a0Antisemitism on College Campuses Exposed<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0to highlight university administrators\u2019 failures surrounding antisemitism.<\/p>\n

Featured in this edition:<\/strong><\/p>\n