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.
According to a new report for the Congressional Budget Office, student loan debt forgiveness will likely completely wipe out gains made by the Inflation Reduction Act—and then some.
"This isn't how laws are supposed to be made," says Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
In six states, accepting student loan forgiveness is likely to result in an increased tax bill.
The administration is creating a system where everyone involved in higher education has an incentive to fleece the American people.
Instead of attacking the student debt crisis at its source, the Biden administration is throwing money at the problem.
The Department of Education continues to forgive federal debt for attendees of shuttered for-profit schools.
The new rules would drop live hearings, bring back the single-investigator model, and limit accused students' options.
The Biden administration just proposed new rules that would undermine basic fairness in college sexual misconduct disputes.
Biden wants to forgive $10,000 in federal loan debt per borrower, regardless of whether they need it.
This is what public policy looks like when a major political party plays kissy-face with public sector unions.
Student debt cancellation would disproportionately benefit college degree holders with higher earnings.
The Biden Administration will push student loan repayment until late summer.
It’s about a lot more than transgender girls’ participation in sports under Title IX, but expect that controversy to dominate the discussion.
School enrollment based solely on geography must come to an end.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
The appeals court is skeptical of the claim that the Texas governor's order illegally discriminates against people with disabilities.
"Some districts are investing big money in initiatives that don't appear at first glance strictly COVID-related."
A federal judge concluded that the Texas governor's ban on mask mandates illegally discriminated against students with disabilities.
Because the agency ties mask recommendations to virus transmission rather than serious cases, its guidance is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Biden is using executive authority to write off debts for some borrowers, while a Bush-era law could have even bigger implications.
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The president seems determined to anoint the agency’s director as the nation’s COVID-19 dictator, no matter what the law says.
If all sensible people agree that students should be forced to wear masks, why do other countries reject that policy?
Not everything potentially beneficial should be mandatory and not everything potentially harmful should be banned. And not every dispute about costs and benefits should be decided by the federal government.
The secretary of education argues that federal law makes the CDC's COVID-19 guidelines for schools mandatory.
Her response to questions from the Senate HELP committee were disqualifying.
Thirty-five years after Bill Bennett sounded the alarm about student loan defaults, we still haven't learned a damn thing.
Biden has tapped her to be assistant secretary for civil rights yet again.
Education Department says its goal is to make sure borrowers in default get their tax refunds.
The president has ordered the Education Department to consider rescinding reforms aimed at protecting the due process rights of accused students.
Even after the massive Biden stimulus, union head honcho Randi Weingarten complains that schools don't have the resources or ability to fully reopen.
