Can Biden Still Forgive Student Debt?
Biden wants to use the Higher Education Act of 1965 to forgive student loans. But that plan has major issues.
Biden wants to use the Higher Education Act of 1965 to forgive student loans. But that plan has major issues.
Some scholars and commentators argue that legacy preferences at public universities are unconstitutional because they are a form of hereditary privilege. If so, the same is likely true of the far more consequential hereditary privilege of citizenship that severely restricts the right to live and work in the United States.
If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
According to Gallup, those with a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education has declined 21 points since 2015.
Biden plans to slash minimum monthly payments to just 5 percent of borrowers' income.
Adam Martinez was banned from school property after he criticized the district's decision to hire an officer deemed "ineligible for rehire" by the local sheriff's office.
Casey DeSantis' "Mamas for DeSantis" ad goes all in on the culture war instead of focusing on Ron DeSantis' strong record on school choice and COVID policy.
Topics covered include affirmative action, legacy preferences, the student loan forgiveness decision, refugee policy, indictments against Trump, Vladimir Putin, political ignorance, and more.
The article assesses strengths and weaknesses of the Court's decision, and what it will take to implement Chief Justice Roberts' admonition that "[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.
Is "intramural" professorial speech protected by the First Amendment?
Teachers are citing West Virginia v. Barnette to protect their right not to be compelled to say something they disagree with.
Josh Shapiro campaigned on a promise to increase funding for schools and expand school choice. Only one of those two things made it into the state budget.
A new complaint argues that legacy admissions violate the Civil Rights Act.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of the Court's recent rulings on affirmative action and same-sex wedding services.
Plus: A listener question on the potential efficacy of congressional term limits.
"We are adamant that the hiring committee...not extend a job offer to Dr. Yoel Inbar," reads the petition.
Biden's proposed income-driven repayment plan could still cost taxpayers billions. And it will likely raise tuition too.
They probably aren't illegal under current law. But they are nonetheless wrong for many of the same reasons as racial preferences.
Plus: Fewer cops, less crime; free beer; and more....
The Court unanimously ruled the plaintiffs in that case lacked standing. But they might end up getting what they wanted more fully than anyone else involved in the legal battle over student loan forgiveness.
The article goes over the main reasons why the Court's decision was justified.
The administration will try this pathway as an alternative to the HEROES Act of 2003, which pathway was shut down by today's Supreme Court decision.
In today's student loan decision, Justice Barrett offers a textualist rationale for this controversial rule. I have made similar arguments myself.
The Court ruled the plan is illegal, and that at least one plaintiff (the state of Missouri) has standing.
A preliminary assessment of today's decisions. The majority rightly struck a blow against the use of racial preferences for purposes of advancing "diversity" in education. But there are some flaws in its reasoning.
There is no reason for public universities to grant preferential treatment to the scions of their alumni.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court ruled that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment.
Global warming is an issue. But there are other pressing problems that deserve the world's attention.
Nearly two years after most children returned to the classroom, educational losses continue to grow.
The answer's more complicated than you might think.
Unlike Democrats, Senate and House Republicans have released proposals that would actually tackle the root causes of increasing student loan debt.
Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.
A new study has found that the more schools kept kids online, the worse their pass rates on state standardized tests were.
Parents of disabled children say the schools filed false neglect reports against them.
But Chris Rufo bragged about breaking the law anyway.
At this rate, the Southern Poverty Law Center's notorious hate map might eventually describe everyone as an extremist.
Doctor sanctioned for comments to journalists about transgender athletes
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.
Current culture wars are just one more manifestation of the reality that public education routinely devolves into indoctrination and imposition of majoritarian ideology on dissenters. But school choice can help mitigate that problem.
Plus: A listener question considers the pros and cons of the libertarian focus on political processes rather than political results.
Stop quoting him out of context on taxation, education, and monopoly.
The Rubin Report host makes the case for the Florida governor, who courageously defied lockdowns but is quick to use the state to punish corporations he doesn't like.