CNBC The SEC on Friday said it settled a lawsuit against two former ITT Educational Services executives accused of hiding the defunct for-profit college operator’s actual financial condition from investors. The deal came after the SEC’s commissioners took the rare step last year of rejecting an earlier proposed settlement negotiated […]
Politico By Caitlin Emma and Michael Stratford The Trump administration plans to advocate a merger of the Education and Labor departments as part of a sweeping government overhaul, according to two individuals familiar with the proposal who declined to be named because it’s not yet public. The new combined agency, […]
IFAP DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket ID ED-2017-OPE-0090] Program Integrity: Gainful Employment AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Announcement of applicable dates; request for comments. ———————————————————————– SUMMARY: On January 6 and January 19, 2017, the Department announced dates by which institutions subject to the Department’s gainful employment (GE) […]
Student loan companies to feds: Tell states to stop regulating us Published: July 29, 2017 8:10 a.m. ET The request comes as a number of states consider proposals to license student loan servicers By JILLIANBERMAN REPORTER Over the past few years, lawmakers in Maine, California, Illinois and elsewhere have worked to pass […]
CECU Dear Colleagues: We are writing to let you know of a request from the U.S. Department of Education for ideas from the public as to federal education regulations that should be modified or eliminated. The Department is particularly interested in regulatory provisions that you find “unduly costly or unnecessarily […]
Bloomberg Politics by Shannon Pettypiece @spettypiMore stories by Shannon Pettypiece April 11, 2017 8:00 PM PDT April 12, 2017 4:48 AM PDT President Donald Trump is issuing a presidential memorandum that will call for a rethinking of the entire structure of the federal government, a move that could eventually lead […]