By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Department signals interest in revisiting rules making student loans eligible for bankruptcy -- a priority for some Democrats and consumer groups. More...
23 février 2018
23 février 2018
Restructuring the Education Department
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, and combine postsecondary and career and technical education into a single office. More...
23 février 2018
Scramble for Aid Money in Budget Deal
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Senate Democrats want to use $4 billion from the budget deal for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, but some higher education groups have other ideas for the money. More...
23 février 2018
Bill Would Require Presidents to Review Misconduct Claims
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Bipartisan legislation announced Thursday in the U.S. Senate would require college leaders -- and at least one member of the institution's governing board -- to personally review all sexual misconduct claims involving university employees reported within a calendar year. More...
23 février 2018
Failure of Immigration Bills Leaves DACA in Doubt
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Leaders in the U.S. Senate brought four immigration bills to the floor for a vote Thursday, each needing 60 votes to advance. All four failed, leaving a solution for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in serious doubt. More...
23 février 2018
Borrowers With High Debt Levels Struggle to Repay Loans
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The share of borrowers graduating with high student loan debt balances has shot up in recent years. And, increasingly, those borrowers are struggling to pay back those loans, according to a Brookings Institution paper released last week. More...
23 février 2018
After Borrower Defense Negotiation Fails, Department to Craft New Rule
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Negotiators failed to reach consensus Thursday on new language for borrower-defense regulations, clearing the way for the U.S. Department of Education to craft its own version of regulations designed to protect defrauded student borrowers. More...
23 février 2018
Education Department No Longer Pursuing Bathroom Complaints From Transgender Students
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education will not take action on civil rights complaints filed by transgender students blocked from using the bathroom matching their gender identity, BuzzFeed News reported Monday. More...
23 février 2018
After Brief Government Shutdown, Budget Deal Helps Kentucky Colleges
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The budget deal senators approved Friday morning would benefit two colleges in Kentucky, the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. But because the Senate did not approve the deal until Friday, a government shutdown started. The House of Representatives approved the deal Friday as well, so the shutdown will only last hours and should be over by the start of the workday today. More...
23 février 2018
Education Department to Propose Compromise in Borrower-Defense Negotiations
By Andrew Kreighbaum. As part of the ongoing negotiations over a student loan forgiveness rule, the Trump administration is proposing a change to evidentiary standards for debt relief claims that would be a compromise between the positions of colleges and student advocates. More...
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