Student Protections and the Value of a Gainful Employment Rule
The Higher Education Act (HEA) requires that all career education programs receiving federal student aid “prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation.” The HEA does not define “gainful employment,” but in 2014 the Education Department adopted...Accountability That Works: Restoring Gainful Employment and Strengthening Higher Education Accountability Measures
The Gainful Employment (GE) Rule was intended to protect students from low-quality programs that often left them with a mountain of debt and credits of little to no value. Issued in 2014, the GE Rule worked to improve institutional quality while lowering costs and...Coalition Letter Urging Congressional Leaders to Maintain the Build Back Better Exclusion of For-Profit Schools from Proposed Pell Increase
Coalition letter from 26 organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, and researchers urging Congressional leaders to maintain the Build Back Better exclusion of for-profit schools from the proposed Pell Grant...Coalition Letter Response to ED’s Request for Public Comments on 90/10 Loophole
Coalition letter from 13 organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, researchers, and other stakeholders writing in response to the Department of Education’s request for public comments on a rule to fully implement...Searching for Common Ground: Week One of Negotiated Rulemaking
By: Kyle Southern, TICAS and Sarah Sattelmeyer, New America Last Monday, negotiators for this fall’s Affordability and Student Loans Committee began their work on the first of two anticipated negotiated rulemakings (“neg reg”), a process through...Student Voices
Biden Admin is also considering excluding grad students from new #IDR plan it is creating. Many on #negreg cmte raised same concerns I just did. Hopefully, ED takes these arguments into consideration before IDR plan is finalized. /6
We urged lawmakers at the #NegReg to reconsider changes to the 90/10 rule that would restrict #Veteran education choices. We were glad to see others, including @AUSNTweets, @EANGUS72, MCF, @ncoausa, and @SOAAorg express similar concerns.
https://veteranseducationproject.org/2022/04/26/vso-transparency-rule-making/
I hope this means the Prison Education Program NPRM is coming out soon. #negreg #PellYes
ED intends to fully implement legislative changes to allow eligible students in college-in-prison programs to access Federal Pell Grants beginning on July 1, 2023. [4/5]
Veterans and Higher Ed | Education Department’s Unholy Alliance with Registered Lobbyists | Why some Federal Agencies Bar Lobbyists from Serving on Committees #negreg https://feehanconsulting.substack.com/p/education-departments-unholy-alliance?r=19j9rp&utm_medium=ios
“The Department (@usedgov) should issue more group discharges in short order to ensure that no defrauded borrower enters repayment on debt that shouldn’t exist in the first place.” #DefendStudents #4profit 3/3 https://www.nclc.org/media-center/advocates-applaud-ed-approval-of-238m-discharge-for-marinello-school-of-beauty-borrowers.html