Senate OKs Nomination of Top Higher Education Official

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed President Obama’s choice for the Education Department’s top official overseeing higher education.
By a voice vote, lawmakers approved the nomination of Theodore R. Mitchell as under secretary of education. Mitchell, who most recently led a “venture philanthropy” fund focused on K-12 education, assumes the post previously occupied by Martha J. Kanter, who left the department last year to join the faculty of New York University. The role has been filled on an interim basis by Jamienne S. Studley, the deputy under secretary of education. Read more...