It isn’t often that a government agency sandbags a program that Congress has entrusted it to execute. But that’s the case with the Department of Education (DOE) and the federal Charter Schools Program. Instead, DOE has radically upended its own process to make it harder, if not impossible, for most would-be charter schools to receive the federal funding that is supposed to support their creation or expansion. It’s a violation of the constitutional separation of powers. Congress needs to step in and correct it.
Congress should not sit idly by while the Biden administration destroys a successful grants program for disadvantaged children and families. The Congressional Review Act (CRA) allows the Senate and House an opportunity to review rulemaking. In recent years, it’s been used successfully to roll back burdensome regulations. A rare bipartisan Senate recently passed a CRA bill to end the administration’s overreach with vaccine mandates.
Some in Congress are trying to do the same here. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) have proposed CRA bills in their respective chambers to halt this rule change and allow the successful charter school grant program to continue unabated.
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