By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Association of American Medical Colleges called on senators to reject the health-care reform bill Republican lawmakers released Thursday. AAMC President and CEO Darrell Kirch said the bill would upend the health-care marketplace and cripple the Medicaid program. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Republicans take issue with deep cuts proposed in White House budget during appropriations hearing with Betsy DeVos. She appears open to ending the release of the names of colleges seeking Title IX religious exemptions. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. A group of Democratic lawmakers asked the leaders of seven federal science agencies Friday to estimate the potential work force layoffs that would be caused by the passage of the proposed White House 2018 budget. 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. 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...