Inside Higher Ed. A federal district judge in Texas blocked a Department of Labor overtime rule Tuesday night in a major setback for the Obama administration. The rule, which would have affected 4.2 million workers, was highly controversialamong many employers, including higher education institutions. It would have raised to $47,476 from $23,660 […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education. President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Betsy DeVos, a charter-school advocate, to be his secretary of education. Ms. DeVos, 58, is chairwoman of the American Federation for Children, a group that pushes for the expansion of charter schools and voucher programs. Ms. DeVos earned her bachelor’s degree from […]
The Detroit News. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he intends to appoint west Michigan GOP mega donor and philanthropist Betsy DeVos to be his education secretary, putting an ardent supporter of school choice in charge of the nation’s education policy. DeVos, 58, is seen as a national leader in […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education For Jittery Academics, Trump’s Education Transition Chief May Bring Calm By Jack Stripling November 22, 2016 Dept. of Education James Manning, named on Monday to lead Donald Trump’s “landing team” at the Education Department, was described by a former colleague as nonpartisan and “a guy […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education. A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration’s effort to extend overtime pay to millions more workers, after 21 states and dozens of business groups asserted that the rule was unlawful and would cause them irreparable harm. Judge Amos L. Mazzant III […]
Inside Higher Ed. A Congressional Research Service memo released last week found that regulations submitted to Congress after May 30, 2016, would be subject to review under a little-used tool called the Congressional Review Act. With control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, the GOP has said one of its […]
Forbes. The Department of Education has released new data on the earnings of graduates from career college programs as part of the implementation of its “gainful employment” (GE) rule. The rule, which went into effect last year, requires colleges that receive federal funding to ensure their graduates have high earnings relative to […]
Inside Higher Ed. In the week after Donald Trump became the president-elect, stock prices of several major for-profit colleges rallied. Is that a signal of a return to their halcyon days? I’m guessing they’ll regain momentum, but in a different direction. They won’t just try to wind the clock back […]
Inside Higher Ed. Leading critics and supporters of the for-profit college industry gathered on a panel at the Cato Institute Wednesday to discuss the sector’s future of under President-elect Donald Trump. The six panelists agreed on one point: nobody really knows what to expect, given Trump’s unpredictability. It’s certainly a possibility that […]
Reuters. The U.S. Congress could as soon as January start to dismantle President Barack Obama’s transformation of student loan rules by blocking freshly minted regulations designed to help students who say they were defrauded by for-profit colleges. The new measures, which lay out loan relief procedures for the students, were […]