U.S. Dept. of Education JANUARY 8, 2019 Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education today announces the following new hires: Casey Sacks—Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education Sacks serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education. Sacks provides leadership […]
Politico By Michael Stratford With help from Kimberly Hefling WILL DEVOS ENFORCE OBAMA-ERA COLLEGE ARBITRATION BAN? Months after losing a court battle to stop a wide-ranging package of Obama-era student loan regulations, the Trump administration last week took its first steps toward carrying out the rules. The Education Department announced it would grant […]
Chronicle of Higher Education By Eric Kelderman Education Secretary Betsy DeVos laid out her clearest positive vision for higher education on Wednesday, calling for a fundamental re-examination of how colleges operate, whom they serve, and how their success should be measured.“We must expand our thinking about what education actually is, […]
Inside Higher Ed The Education Department said Thursday that it would carry out part of the Obama administration’s 2016 borrower-defense rule, automatically canceling the student loan debt of 15,000 borrowers whose colleges closed between November 2013 and December 2018. The department will cancel about $150 million in student loan debt over all, including […]
Chronicle of Higher Education By Sarah Brown and Katherine Mangan Updated (11/16/2018, 4:40 p.m.) with additional reaction to and comment on the proposed regulations. Students accused of sexual misconduct would gain greater protections and colleges investigating complaints could face reduced liability under sweeping new regulations proposed on Friday by the […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum Education Secretary Betsy DeVos The U.S. Department of Education will blow a key deadline next month in its bid to overhaul two Obama-era student loan rules. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is seeking to issue a more restrictive version of a loan-forgiveness rule known as […]
Time.com College financial aid season kicks off today, October 1, as the 2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Financial Aid opens for filing. Anyone who wants to access the billions of dollars of federal financial aid awarded each year—including grants, loans, and work study—has to complete the FAFSA. The information you […]
Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum In its latest update to the College Scorecard, the Education Department has dropped data putting key outcomes measures for individual colleges in context. The department is making those changes as it pushes transparency offered by the Scorecard as an alternative to accountability provisions in the gainful-employment […]
Chronicle of Higher Education By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz The U.S. Department of Education has officially proposed repealing the gainful-employment rule, a policy that punished higher-education programs whose graduates accumulated excessive student-loan debt, according to a notice of proposed rulemaking released Friday. The rule, first proposed by the Obama administration in 2011, would have […]