The Senate voted 59 to 40 Wednesday to overturn Obama administration regulations meant to ensure that new K-12 public school teachers are ready for the nation’s classrooms. The House has already approved the measure, and the White House has indicated that President Trump intends to sign it. “This regulation actually makes the assumption that bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., are competent to micromanage teacher training programs in America,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) [House votes to overturn two Obama-era education regulations]Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) argued that the regulations would help prospective teachers make informed choices about which training programs to pursue. The effort to undo the two sets of education regulations is part of a broader push by the Republican-led Congress to repeal Obama-era regulations that the GOP considered to be executive overreach.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2017 20:15 UTC