By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Tuesday that she will appoint A. Wayne Johnson, a financial services executive, to oversee the government's $1.4 trillion student loan portfolio as the next chief of federal student aid. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. A federal district court judge last week ordered the Department of Education to rule within 90 days on an application for loan relief by a former Corinthian Colleges student. The application has been pending for more than two years. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department's recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Trump administration has held internal discussions about relocating some functions of the Department of Education to other federal agencies, including moving its $1.4 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, according to media reports. But that idea, which has periodically resurfaced for years, hasn't found serious interest among members of Congress. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. A federal claims judge this week extended an injunction on the assignment of newly defaulted student loan borrowers to debt collectors. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Nineteen state attorneys general and the head of Hawaii's Office of Consumer Protections wrote Monday that the Department of Education should consider abandoning individual review of loan discharge applications from former Corinthian College students. Instead, the department should grant automatic group discharge to student borrowers in cohorts where it has already determined fraud took place, they said in a letter to Secretary Betsy DeVos. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education secretary finally responds, without detail, to Democratic lawmakers who sought answers on status of promised student loan discharge claims for defrauded borrowers. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. About 234,000 defaulted student loan borrowers with debt valued at $4.6 billion will be stuck in limbo and unable to get out of default if a judge's order is not lifted this week, the Department of Education said in a court filing Friday. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education announced Friday that it plans to select a single student loan servicer that borrowers will interact with on a single platform, a departure from the current system where four major servicing companies handle borrowers' payments of their federal student loans. More...