Eastern Wisconsin’s representative in Congress has introduced an education bill.
The Competency-Based Education Act, written by Congressman Glen Grothman and co-sponsored by fellow Congressmen Tom Tiffany, Burgess Owens, and Fred Keller aims to assist universities in cultivating learning environments that will allow students to learn at their own pace.
The average amount of student loan debt that has yet to be paid off is over $37,000 per borrower.
In Wisconsin, graduates on average leave school with about $30,000 of debt.
CBE alleviates the burden of student loan debt by allowing students to learn at their own pace and often obtain the same degree in a much shorter amount of time.
Virginia Foxx, the Ranking Member of the Education and Labor Committee also supports the bill.
She said it will “strengthen our workforce and do much to solve the skills gap and labor shortage that is preventing our economy from reaching its true potential.”
