Department of Education

DeVos Right to Suspend Lax Loan-Forgiveness Policy

DeVos Right to Suspend Lax Loan-Forgiveness Policy

Real Clear Education By A.J. Kritikos Earlier this summer, a federal court ordered the Department of Education “to cease all efforts to collect debts” from students who attended failed for-profit universities. While the court order focused on a privacy issue, the heart of the suit is the borrower’s defense rule. The […]

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Betsy DeVos’s Loan-Forgiveness Rule Gets Slimed by the College Cartel

Betsy DeVos’s Loan-Forgiveness Rule Gets Slimed by the College Cartel

National Review By Frederick M. Hess and Cody Christensen Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has issued new guidelines on federal student-loan forgiveness in an attempt to more sensibly balance the rights of borrowers and taxpayers. Predictably, the higher-education cartel and its media allies were aghast. The New York Times headlined its story “DeVos Proposes to […]

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California AG Amends Lawsuit on Delayed Processing of Borrower Defense Claims

California AG Amends Lawsuit on Delayed Processing of Borrower Defense Claims

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators By Allie Bidwell, NASFAA Senior Reporter California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced last week, just three days after the Department of Education (ED) released proposed regulations for borrower defense to repayment, that the state had amended an existing lawsuit to establish that the state had […]

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Department of Education Extends Deadline to Respond to ACICS Petition for Continued Recognition

Department of Education Extends Deadline to Respond to ACICS Petition for Continued Recognition

Accredited Council for Independent Colleges and Schools Department of Education Extends Deadline to Respond to ACICS Petition for Continued Recognition On July 30, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) received notification from the Department of Education that it will extend the deadline to respond to ACICS’s petition […]

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DeVos to Announce New Push for Deregulation, Innovation

DeVos to Announce New Push for Deregulation, Innovation

Inside Higher Ed by Andrea Kreighbaum The Trump administration says it wants more innovation in higher education. And it believes rewriting the rules for college accrediting agencies is the best way to encourage innovation. In an exclusive interview with Inside Higher Ed, the administration’s top higher education official described the philosophy […]

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Senate Passes Update to Perkins CTE Law

Senate Passes Update to Perkins CTE Law

Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum The Senate on Monday unanimously passed an update to the Perkins Career and Technical Education Law. The House passed its own version of the bill more than a year ago, but negotiations in the Senate had been in a stalemate for months. Business groups and the White House had […]

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Trump Wants to Drastically Alter the Education Dept. Here’s What You Need to Know

Trump Wants to Drastically Alter the Education Dept. Here’s What You Need to Know

Chronicle by Sarah Brown U.S. Department of Education and the Workforce? That’s what the Trump administration envisions in its new 132-page framework for merging the Education and Labor Departments, as part of a broader overhaul of the federal government. The departments, officials wrote in the proposal, “share a common goal […]

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Seeking Comment: IFAP – Federal Registers

Seeking Comment: IFAP – Federal Registers

IFAP DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket ID ED-2017-OPE-0090] Program Integrity: Gainful Employment AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Announcement of applicable dates; request for comments. ———————————————————————– SUMMARY: On January 6 and January 19, 2017, the Department announced dates by which institutions subject to the Department’s gainful employment (GE) […]

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