By Andrew Kreighbaum. In a letter released Monday, the Senate and House education committees called on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to assist students affected by the continued outage of the IRS data retrieval tool. More...
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With IRS Data Tool Down, Lawmakers Ask Department of Ed to Assist Students
Study: Income-Based Repayment Reduced Defaults
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A new study links the drop in home prices during the Great Recession to the increase in student loan defaults over the same period. The study, released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, also finds student loan defaults concentrated among individuals with low-income jobs, which were shed as housing prices dropped. More...
Cutting College Prep
By Andrew Kreighbaum. White House promises proposed cuts to college-prep programs will be guided by evidence. But past attempts to evaluate the programs have been beset by controversy. More...
Scientists Blast Trump Executive Order on Climate
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Science organizations spoke out forcefully Tuesday in response to President Trump's executive order to unravel Obama administration climate policies. More...
Education Dept. Defends Gainful Employment
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Trump administration defended the gainful-employment rule in federal court Wednesday, suggesting that it may not quickly roll back the regulation designed to crack down on programs graduating students unable to pay down high student loan debt loads. More...
Key Financial Aid Tool Could Be Down for Months
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that an important online tool for financial aid applicants could be down for months while protections are added to protect the security of users. More...
Print This 4 Student Aid Experiments Will End
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education will end four experimental initiatives launched under the Obama administration granting participating institutions a waiver from certain statutes concerning federal student aid. More...
What Did Black Colleges Win From Meetings With Trump?
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Trump budget proposal released last week promised to maintain institutional support for historically black colleges. But it does so while dealing a blow to grant-based and work-study programs on which black colleges and their students depend. More...
Protecting Pell? Critics Say Budget Wouldn't
By Andrew Kreighbaum. By cutting a third of program's surplus and slashing other aid programs, Trump administration's first budget would imperil college access, advocates argue. Read more...
Seeking Help for Those Hurt by IRS Blunder
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education should give a break to financial aid applicants after an automated IRS data tool was shut down more than a week ago, say the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and several other college access groups. Read more...
