By Andrew Kreighbaum. The National Science Foundation should clearly state the most important questions to be addressed by the social, behavioral and economic sciences, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said in a report published Friday. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Many find her claim about “unsettled law” to be dubious and an abdication of her agency's civil rights responsibilities.
That assurance came with a pretty big caveat, however. Pressed by Democrats on how she would protect the rights of LGBT students, DeVos said in areas where the law is “unsettled,” which she said included issues of bias against gay people, her department would not be “issuing decrees.” 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 National Women's Law Center filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Education Monday alleging that it has improperly withheld documents concerning its enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Department staff are taking steps to update the data feeding the College Scorecard, a tool that allows prospective students to look at measures like the debt burden of an institution's graduates, by September of this year, according to higher ed groups. That would be counted as a victory by proponents of more transparency in higher ed, even though the Scorecard wasn’t among the Obama efforts the Trump administration promised to eliminate. 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. The U.S. Department of Education announced several new senior employees Wednesday, including a key former staffer of Senator Lamar Alexander on the Senate education committee. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Lawmakers show renewed interest in examining how reimbursements for federally funded research are made to universities but don't yet endorse dramatically lower flat rate outlined in Trump budget. 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. Student loan borrowers looking to enroll in income-driven repayment programs -- or to recertify their income levels -- can once again automatically transfer their tax return data into applications. The Department of Education announced Friday that it had restored access to the IRS data retrieval tool for those borrowers. More...
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