Online Learning Update

Kery Murakami, Inside Higher Ed

Three weeks ago the U.S. House of Representatives’ oversight committee threatened it might subpoena U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos if she didn’t confirm she would appear before the body on March 3 to answer an array of questions. It doesn’t sound like DeVos is going to go. Instead of an RSVP, the acting general counsel for the Education Department sent the committee a scathing letter pushing back at what he considers to be overreach by the committee — and saying the subpoena threat “signals an unhealthy appetite for the abuse of congressional power.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/26/education-department-says-house-committee-seeking-abuse-power-subpoena-threat