Andrew Kreighbaum
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Outgoing Trump Education Department official calls for student debt relief
A. Wayne Johnson, a departing top official at the Office of Federal Student Aid under Betsy DeVos, calls for canceling federal student debt as his "signature issue" for a Senate run. → Read More
Court Holds DeVos, Education Dept. in Contempt
A federal district court judge on Thursday held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court for the improper collection of student loans from several thousand borrowers who attended now-defunct for-profit colleges. → Read More
Democrat says Trump administration improperly released aid to Dream Center colleges
In letter suggesting Trump administration improperly directed aid to for-profit college programs, top education committee lawmaker floats possibility of subpoenas. → Read More
Massachusetts AG Sues DeVos Over Debt Relief
Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Education Department seeking debt cancellation for 7,200 former Corinthian Colleges students. → Read More
After first rejection, Florida Coastal makes another bid to go nonprofit
The American Bar Association rejected a bid by Florida Coastal School of Law to go nonprofit, but law school leaders are committed to the change in tax status. → Read More
Warren calls on Trump administration to fire loan servicer Navient
Massachusetts Democrat puts loan-servicing giant in the crosshairs. But removing Navient from federal student loan program would be difficult, observers say. → Read More
HBCUs Plan Cuts After Congress Misses Funding Deadline
The Senate's failure to renew $255 million in annual mandatory funding for historically black colleges is already having consequences on campuses, wrote Harry L. Williams, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, in a letter to lawmakers Monday. → Read More
Employers, governors back federal aid for students in prisons
The effort to overturn a ban on federal aid for incarcerated students gets new support from corporate backer and state elected officials. → Read More
Report: Federal policy, not servicers, to blame for many student loan failures
Complex student loan policy causes consumer frustration as often as failures by servicers, report finds. → Read More
Report: Federal policy, not servicers, to blame for many student loan failures
Complex student loan policy causes consumer frustration as often as failures by servicers, report finds. → Read More
DeVos on Congressional Fight Over HBCU Money
The recent expiration of mandatory federal funding for historically black colleges won't have any bearing on award funds for the next year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told HBCU leaders in a letter sent Wednesday. → Read More
Biden Plan Focuses on Community Colleges
Joe Biden released a postsecondary education plan Tuesday that draws a further contrast between his presidential campaign and those of Democratic rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The former vice president's plan focuses on boosting federal support for community colleges, minority-serving institutions and the Pell Grant program. It also proposes enacting more → Read More
Federal-State Partnerships for College Affordability
In a report released Wednesday, the Institute for College Access and Success proposed a framework for a federal-state partnership to increase college affordability. → Read More
CFPB Investigating Loan Program at College Chain
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is looking into loans and other financing offered to students by the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which operates the College America and the Stevens-Henager College chains. → Read More
Alexander Backs College Transparency Act
Senator Lamar Alexander, the GOP chairman of the Senate education committee, signed on last week as a co-sponsor of the College Transparency Act, legislation that would remove the federal ban on a student-level data system. → Read More
Student Debt Reinforces the Racial Wealth Gap, Study Finds
The burden of student loans on young black people is a crisis that requires immediate policy action, argues a paper released Wednesday from the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University. The report finds that 20 years after entering repayment, the median white student borrower has paid back 94 percent of their student debt. The median black borrower, meanwhile, still owes 95… → Read More
After student loans discharged, borrowers are more mobile and earn more, study finds
Borrowers whose private student loans were discharged in court earned more, paid off other debt and were more likely to move for work, new research shows. → Read More
Alexander blocks HBCU funding bill, proposes broader package of legislation
Senate education committee chairman proposes package of bipartisan higher ed bills as well as 10-year extension of mandatory funding for historically black colleges and other minority-serving institutions. → Read More
Trump administration acts on funding restrictions for religious HBCUs
Department of Justice lifts restriction on capital financing for faith-based historically black colleges -- part of White House effort to show commitment to HBCUs. But it's not clear how many colleges have been denied funding. → Read More
Survey suggests who pays for college drives partisan divide
Think tank survey finds majorities of Republicans view higher ed as valuable, but see individual students as benefiting from degrees. → Read More