On Tuesday, June 10, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the text of its budget reconciliation bill, accompanied by a section-by-section summary and a one-pager. This release follows the...more
On April 21, the U.S. Department of Education announced that its Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will resume collections on defaulted federal student loans starting Monday, May 5th. This decision ends a collections pause...more
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) will convene a negotiated rulemaking committee in Washington, D.C. 14-16 January 2019 to begin discussions about proposals to revise the ED regulations related to the Title IV federal...more
The Department of Education, in an issue paper submitted as part of negotiated rulemaking on its final “borrower defense” rule, is proposing to require schools that use pre-dispute arbitration agreements and class action...more