New Title IX Rules Erase Campus Due Process Protections
The new rules allow students to be found guilty of assaulting a classmate without ever seeing the full evidence against them.
The new rules allow students to be found guilty of assaulting a classmate without ever seeing the full evidence against them.
A recent case in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals highlights just how bloated PSLF eligibility has become.
A shoddy effort to simplify the financial aid form led to errors affecting 30 percent of this year's FAFSA applications.
Instead of making the FAFSA form easier for families, persistent technical issues have imperiled vital financial aid information for millions of students.
The new plan is much less ambitious than the president's 2022 blanket forgiveness effort, mostly relying on an expansion of previous smaller-scale debt cancelation schemes.
A rushed attempt to simplify the financial aid form has led to persistent technical difficulties, frustrating families and colleges alike.
The updated FAFSA form has been marred with technical problems, leaving many students unable to complete the financial aid form entirely.
Biden claims that billions in loan forgiveness is "good for the economy," but his plans will end up costing taxpayers almost $500 billion.
This new wave of forgiveness shows how Biden can keep canceling student loans, even after his defeat at the Supreme Court last year.
The plan is the Biden administration's latest effort to enact large-scale student loan forgiveness.
Persistent technical difficulties have made completing the financial aid form nearly impossible for many applicants.
A new study sparks hope that the historic declines in students' reading and math performance following the pandemic may not be permanent.
Through changes to income-driven repayment plans, the Department of Education is set to enact debt relief for thousands of borrowers.
While the new version of the financial aid form was supposed to simplify the process, it has instead been riddled with technical problems and considerable delays.
Post-COVID educational declines are here to stay.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
Post-pandemic enrollment isn’t likely to rebound anytime soon.
Since its start in March 2020, the pause has cost taxpayers around $200 billion.
The injunction is the latest in a series of setbacks for the Biden administration's loan forgiveness agenda.
Biden's new income-driven repayment plan is estimated to cost taxpayers $360 billion over the next decade.
The spate of forgiveness reconciles administrative errors when carrying out changes to income-driven repayment plans.
Biden's proposed income-driven repayment plan could still cost taxpayers billions. And it will likely raise tuition too.
Unlike Democrats, Senate and House Republicans have released proposals that would actually tackle the root causes of increasing student loan debt.
At this rate, the Southern Poverty Law Center's notorious hate map might eventually describe everyone as an extremist.
A new working paper finds that borrowers whose loan payments were paused actually had more debt at the end of 2021 than those whose loans were never paused.
If the debt ceiling bill passes, the Education Department will be barred from extending the student loan repayment pause yet again.
The number surged during the pandemic.
The lawsuit claims that the pause has cost taxpayers "$160 billion and counting."
Unlike the Education Department's estimates, a CBO analysis considers how the new rules will encourage more students to take out loans they won't be able to pay back.
Schools are allowed to preserve sex-based restrictions for athletes provided they are "substantially related to the achievement of an important educational objective."
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"If it was an emergency, why wait three years to provide the forgiveness? Why present it in a political framework, as fulfilling a campaign promise?" said one higher education expert.
"More money can help schools succeed, but not if they fritter those extra resources in unproductive ways," says one researcher.
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Educators should be responsible to parents and students, not to the government.
In the early 20th century, the Klan's virulent nativism and anti-Catholicism fueled its interest in education policy.
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are still the chief drivers of our future debt. But Republicans aren't touching them.
New changes to income-driven repayment plans announced Tuesday would essentially turn student loans into government grants.
As the Court agrees to take up yet another case against the Education Department's loan forgiveness plan, Biden's goal of forgiving billions in student loans seems increasingly doomed.
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court denied the Biden administration's request to block a Texas judge's ruling that declared the policy unconstitutional.
"While the procedural protections currently in place are grossly inadequate, we may soon be calling these the 'good old days.'"
The lack of statutory authority is the main issue raised by legal challenges to the plan.
This latest expense is yet more evidence that sweeping student loan forgiveness will end up doing considerable economic harm.
The Department of Education has no idea how to project the costs of its own programs, and Biden's student loan forgiveness plan will be no exception.