Jon Valant spoke to The 74 about the “Big, Beautiful, Bill” and the scaled-back school choice proposal.  

Cutting Pell while simultaneously cutting FSEOG adds up to a dramatic loss in aid available to the lowest-income college students and the institutions that serve them…

That’s the heart of the question that’s being debated—although it’s not being debated in explicit terms—does racial discrimination exist?

It ends up being a very quiet and sneaky way to fund a voucher program and impose it on states because it’s just wrapped up in this gargantuan and confusing tax bill…

If you looked on average at how professors at the Ivy League voted, there would be a majority [Democratic] … and so there’s this perception on the right that these colleges don’t have..."

Jon Valant spoke about how COVID-19 triggered a school choice renaissance with The 74 Million.

Absent action by Congress, today or going forward, the writing of these bills does not—to me—say that there’s a legal way for an administration to just pick up one office and put it in..."

Jon Valant was interviewed on CBS Evening News about the executive order aiming to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. 

You can’t cut that many people from the department and not expect that services will decline…When you have fewer people in that office, people are going to get slower services. They may..."

It’s hard to imagine that these staffing cuts won’t have the effect of curtailing the department’s ability to carry out their core functions.