Committee on Education & The Workforce March 17, 2023 Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) decision to defend the ability of Congress to conduct oversight on the Biden administration’s costly student loan bailout: “Once again, the Biden Administration has failed to follow the […]
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Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott March 20, 2023 House and Senate Republicans are planning to introduce a resolution to overturn President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan after the Government Accountability Office determined that the plan meets the definition of a rule under the Congressional Review Act. That means that a simple majority of lawmakers in the House and Senate […]
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Real Clear Education Ethan Pollock & Erica Cuevas March 17, 2023 The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in two cases that could scuttle the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan. If the plan survives, it could be a potentially life-changing financial reprieve for more than 40 million eligible Americans. But no matter what the Court decides, students, families, and taxpayers […]
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NASFAA March 16, 2023 Jill Desjean On Tuesday the Department of Education (ED) opened a 60-day comment period on a proposed new information collection by which institutions will be required to report individual students’ Federal Work-Study (FWS) earnings through the Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) system. While previous mention of this new reporting requirement referred only to […]
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