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Senators Support Pell Grant Program

Sens. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawai‘i), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) led a group of 37 Senators, calling on appropriators to continue strong support for the federal Pell Grant program in Fiscal Year 2018. As the largest source of federal grant aid for undergraduate students in the U.S., the Pell Grant program helps millions […]

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Senator Tells DeVos Cuts Won’t Fly

A closely watched panel chaired by Missouri’s Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt undertook a key public issue Tuesday. Blunt’s appropriations subcommittee that funds the Department of Education held a hearing to question the agency’s head over its 2018 budget. Under President Donald Trump’s proposal, education would be cut by $9.2 billion, or 13.5%. Spending reductions […]

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Accreditors Weigh Rigor vs. Innovation

Dive Brief: Accreditors for higher educational institutions have worked as self-regulators for colleges and universities while helping to serve as government’s proxy to determining federal funding access, but increased pressure on schools to deliver innovative programs puts pressure on accreditors to not stymie such innovation. Richard Legon, the president of the Association of Governing Boards […]

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Trump Education Cuts Undermine Growth Goals

The Trump administration has some ambitious goals that include trillions in tax cuts, a significant military buildup and a fresh investment in infrastructure. The White House released details of how it plans to pay for it all in its full budget request for fiscal year 2018: by slashing spending on pretty much everything else, but […]

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Trump Weighs Shifting Student Loan Oversight to Treasury

The Trump administration is considering moving responsibility for overseeing more than $1 trillion in student debt from the Education Department to the Treasury Department, a switch that would radically change the system that helps 43 million students finance higher education. The potential change surfaced in a scathing resignation memo sent late Tuesday night by James […]

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Scathing Senate Report Released on Wounded Warriors

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Following media reports last year of lavish spending by Jacksonville-based Wounded Warrior Project, the U.S. Senate launched its own investigation of the nonprofit. That Senate committee released its critical findings on Wednesday, and the nonprofit’s CEO said the organization will be reviewing the report through the weekend to learn how it can […]

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Chelsea Manning Begins Life Outside Prison

Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private who passed a trove of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, walked out of the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., on Wednesday morning after serving an abbreviated sentence in connection with one of the most notorious leaks of classified documents in U.S. history. Manning’s 35-year sentence was […]

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Texas Effort to Tighten Vet Aid Fizzles

Free college tuition benefits offered to Texas military veterans and their kids are looking much more secure for the next few years as lawmakers in the House back away from efforts to pare back the program known as Hazlewood. Facing strong pushback from veterans groups and Democrats, the state representative leading the effort to rein […]

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Trucking School Owner Indicted in Veteran Scam

LOS ANGELES — The owner and operator of a California trucking company are accused of bilking more than $4 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs by collecting federal tuition reimbursements for veterans who never actually attended any classes, federal prosecutors say. Emmit Marshall, 50, and Robert Waggoner, 54, were indicted in Los Angeles on […]

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Ex-Senator Declines Naval Award

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb announced that he will not accept a Naval Academy Alumni Association award because of recent protests from other alumni. Media outlets report that several alumni wrote to the association starting last week, asking the organization to rescind the Distinguished Graduate Award planned for Webb, a 1968 graduate, […]

Ex-Pentagon Chief Returns to Harvard

BOSTON — Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter is the latest member of Barack Obama’s cabinet heading to the world of academia. Harvard University said Carter is being hired as a professor and as director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a university think tank. Carter follows other top members of the Democratic […]

Judge Postpones Trump U. Ruling

A federal judge in San Diego declined on Thursday to issue an immediate ruling in the multi-million-dollar settlement related to President Trump’s defunct “Trump University” real estate program, keeping open the possibility that a Florida woman could still sue the president. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who became a lightning rod for Trump’s criticisms during […]

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