By Andrew Kreighbaum. Republican tax reform plan would tax large endowments and limit or kill key deductions, including one for student loan interest and another for graduate students. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Trump administration will ask negotiators of borrower-defense rule to reconsider institutions’ liability for claims of misrepresentation -- a request that has some worried DeVos plans to let bad programs off the hook. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Senate Finance Committee is considering a 2 percent excise tax on university endowments among a number of options to find revenue in an ambitious tax overhaul, according to multiple reports. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The American Bar Association council responsible for overseeing legal education last week approved a recommendation that would give law schools more discretion over whether to use the LSAT or GRE for law school admissions. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. A report released by Democratic members of the Joint Economic Committee highlights causes of the increasing cost of college for many Americans. It identifies, among those, declining state support for public institutions, incentives for institutions at odds with keeping programs affordable, and failures in the regulatory system to hold programs failing students accountable. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Trump administration on Thursday said it would pull the nomination of Michigan state Rep. Tim Kelly for assistant secretary for career, technical, and adult education after years-old blog posts making offensive remarks about Muslims, women, and poor people received public attention, according to Education Week and Politico. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Rand Paul wants to add two people to every federal peer-review panel evaluating research proposals, charged with looking for value to taxpayers. Science advocates say idea would politicize federal funding of research. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Campus officials say elimination of program won’t simplify aid system, as proponents claim, but will likely lead many students to take out private loans. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Department weighs whether -- and how -- the government should offer partial relief to some who filed borrower-defense claims. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education on Friday issued a new delay of the Obama administration's borrower defense rule that would block it from going into effect until the conclusion of a bureaucratic rewrite of the rule expected to conclude by 2019. More...