New York’s Free College Plan Harkens Back to a Bygone Era
Alexander Holt
Alexander Holt is a policy analyst with the Education Policy Program at New America.
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Little-Noticed Document Could Hint at Trump Higher Education Plan
Plan released by Vice-Chair of Trump transition team may provide clues to Trump’s proposals
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Department of Education’s Budget Estimates Cannot Be Trusted
A new GAO report shows gross negligence estimating the cost of income-driven repayment.
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Department of Education Says Industry Lobbyists Are Future of Higher Education Accountability
The Department of Education wants the chief higher education lobby to hold schools accountable for whether they receive federal dollars.
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Libertarian Gary Johnson Is Very Confused About Student Loans
It’s hard to understand what the Libertarian Party candidate is trying to say.
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The Republican Platform on Higher Education Is a Mess
Corporate welfare to banks. What could go wrong?
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What I Learned from Donald Trump’s New Education Policy Video
Donald Trump released a new video explaining his proposals for U.S. K-12 education policy. As an education analyst, let my try to break down Trump’s nuanced views on education using every bit of information available in this video. Please watch the video before proceeding. I WILL END COMMON COREI will end common core. It’s a […]
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Louisiana Faces Worst Fiscal Crisis in 30 Years
BATON ROUGE, La. — On Sunday, February 14, Jon Bel Edwards, the newly elected Democratic governor of Louisiana, addressed a packed audience on the first day of a special three-week session designed to solve the worst budget crisis in the state’s modern history. Within the next four months, Louisiana must fill a $940 million budget […]
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Every Job is a “Public Service”
Emily Best is a 32-year old Pennsylvania farmer who wants a little help from the federal government. As reported in MartketWatch, Best believes that the work she does should qualify her for an extremely generous federal program that allows student loan borrowers who work in public service jobs to pay an affordable percentage of their […]
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Department of Education Will Scuff New, Shiny Object
Kathleen Murtagh/Flickr Today, the Department of Education unveiled a new initiative to use an experimental site to issue federal student aid dollars to innovative programs like bootcamps where students enroll in relatively short programs (often three to six months) to learn coding skills and gain high paying jobs. These boot camps, and other programs like […]
