Tag: education department

June 23, 2020

The White House and the Education Department have intensified their scrutiny of colleges’ relationships with foreign entities, particularly China. Under the Higher Education Act, institutions must inform the department of donations and contracts coming from outside the U.S. that are […]

March 9, 2020

The U.S. Department of Education is moving forward with its proposal from a year ago to create vouchers for teachers to use for professional development—despite a previous congressional rebuke to the idea. In its fiscal 2020 budget request early last […]

November 27, 2018

DeVos continued her department’s deregulation of the for-profit sector last week, when she permanently reinstated federal recognition for the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS). The accreditor oversaw the for-profit chains Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute, whose […]

August 21, 2018

The White House announced Tuesday that President Trump will nominate Robert L. King to be the assistant secretary of postsecondary education. King, who has decades of experience in state government but none at the federal level, is Trump’s first nominee […]

August 1, 2018

The GAO and a group of Democratic legislators have suggested that the Education Department should modify the program and do more outreach to public universities, which could expand it. Only 13 of the participating schools are public institutions. The GAO […]

July 7, 2017

A federal district court judge last week ordered the Department of Education to rule within 90 days on an application for loan relief by a former Corinthian Colleges student. The application has been pending for more than two years. The […]

June 14, 2016

Student-loan borrowers who are defrauded by their colleges could soon find it easier to get their debt forgiven and to sue their colleges for wrongdoing, under a proposed rule that the Education Department is set to issue on Thursday. The […]

April 25, 2016

The Obama administration on Friday told accreditors to focus more on enforcing standards that measure student achievement and to consider additional scrutiny for colleges with significant problems. The new guidance from the U.S. Department of Education is the latest in […]

April 6, 2016

The Obama administration is proposing new standards that govern how and when college accreditors have to alert the U.S. Department of Education about troubled institutions under the accreditors’ purview. The department is soliciting public comments on a letter it plans […]

March 28, 2016

The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced that thousands more students who attended campuses owned by Corinthian Colleges would be eligible to have their federal loans forgiven. The department said it had enough evidence of fraud at 91 former […]

March 24, 2016

One piece of inaccurate information precipitated Kentucky-based Decker College’s closure more than 10 years ago. Thatmisinformation, provided by Decker’s accreditor to the U.S. Department of Education, about the status of Decker’s distance education program, led the department to terminate the […]

March 2, 2016

As many as 40 percent of students in New York City recommended for special-education services may not be getting them, the Education Department said in a report released on Monday. But even more striking, the department said that its data […]

February 29, 2016

President Barack Obama’s nominee for Education Secretary told senators Thursday that the focus of decision-making on elementary and secondary education is “rightly shifting” to the states and away from the federal government. John B. King Jr. is poised to oversee […]

February 9, 2016

The Obama administration is creating a new office at the U.S. Department of Education dedicated to investigating and punishing illegal activity at colleges and providing debt relief to defrauded federal loan borrowers. Officials on Monday announced a new “enforcement unit” […]

February 3, 2016

The new Every Student Succeeds Act puts a premium on federal efforts to help states identify and eliminate low-quality, redundant or unhelpful testing, and new guidance (link is external) announced Feb. 2 by acting U.S. Secretary of Education John B. […]