To the editor: Columnist Michael Hiltzik asks a question on student loan debt relief that is fundamental to the direction of this country and should dominate economic policy in the 2024 election. ("Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes," column, April 16) For far too long, Republicans have maligned any form of student debt relief under the guise that it cost the taxpayers in order to fund "worthless gender studies degrees." They...
Most families take out student loans to cover the rising cost of college. A new report found that incoming freshmen may have $37,000 in debt by graduation.
Student debt, a new Gallup report shows, is making it harder for young people to reach key life milestones. According to a Gallup survey of over 14,000 adults, over 70% of people say student debt has “delayed major life events” including moving out of their parents’ home, getting married, and having a child. Strikingly, there […]
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Few issues have vexed the Biden administration like student loan forgiveness. Given that more than 40 million Americans owe money on their student loans, for a total of $1.6 trillion, few issues have such a large impact on so many. Democrats and progressives have long prioritized this matter, and President Joe Biden promised to fight for significant debt relief before taking office. Even though his ambitious proposal to use his executive authority to forgive $400 billion in student loan debt...
Gillian Keegan MP officially opened Truro and Penwith College's new STEM and Health skills centre
The latest round of forgiveness brings the total amount of relief given to student loan borrowers under the Biden administration to $160 billion for 4.6 million individuals.
To be eligible, borrowers with any of four types of federally managed loans must consolidate them by April 30.
Louisiana’s top education official on Monday instructed schools to ignore new Title IX rules unveiled by the Biden administration, warning that extending the civil rights law’s protections to transgender students may violate existing state and federal law. The Education Department last week issued a final set of sweeping changes to Title IX — which prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally
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A Slidell teacher accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student and buying students alcohol has been arrested.
The New Mexico School Superintendent Association along with multiple schools and their superintendents have filed a lawsuit in Curry County against the New Mexico Public Education Department in regard to the departments implementation of its new administrative rule, School Instructional Time Requirements.