The Senate voted Thursday to overturn education regulations written by the Obama administration in its final months that reinstated federal guidelines on a range of public education issues.
The 50-49 vote in favor of the resolution opposing the regulation sends it to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.
The resolution is the product of a GOP-led effort to use the Congressional Review Act, or CRA, to overturn a broad regulation the Obama officials labeled an “accountability rule.” That rule would have gutted a Republican law from 2015 aimed at freeing states and localities from various federal education mandates.
That Obama rule, a draft of which was first released in May and finalized in November, re-imposed certain federal requirements dealing with how schools are rated, the timeline for federal intervention in struggling schools, and the required indicators of school quality that go beyond test scores, among others.
The House passed its own CRA repeal of the regulation in early February.
On Wednesday, the Senate rolled back a different education regulation dealing with teacher training programs.
