Alabama Sen. Doug Jones

Democratic Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and two of his colleagues introduced a bill last week to reduce the need for remedial courses and improve remedial programs in post-secondary education. The bill, called the Promoting Readiness in Education to Prevent Additional Remediation and Expense (PREPARE) Act, aims to align high school graduation requirements with entrance requirements … Continued

A bill cosponsored by Alabama Sen. Doug Jones would seek to extend GI Bill education benefits to foster children and legal wards, clearing up an inconsistency in the law when it comes to a veteran’s non-biological children. Jones cosponsored the new legislation, called the GI Education Benefits Fairness Act, to support military families by extending … Continued

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones is partnering with Virginia Sen. Mark Warner to introduce a bill that would make up for federal funding lost to states that chose not to expand Medicaid in the first years of the Affordable Care Act. The bill would allow states to take advantage of a similar match rate to those … Continued