Higher Education Reauthorization: This fall the House Education and the Workforce committee is expected to introduce its long awaited bill to reauthorize HEA. It is expected that the proposal will consolidate several different grant, loan, and other student aid programs to place an emphasis on workforce preparedness.
The emphasis on workforce preparedness could manifest itself in a couple of different proposals being talked about by Chairwoman Foxx and others...
Deregulation Hearings and ED Task Force: Today the Department held its first of two hearings to solicit public feedback on higher education regulations. This complements two other initiatives undertaken this summer to examine areas for deregulations...
Perkins Extension: Congress has until September 30th to pass a reauthorization of the Perkins Loan Program before it expires. Bi-partisan measures are working their way through the House and the Senate, with 220 cosponsors on the House bill alone, though neither bill currently has floor time. While there is strong support for the extension, Congress had been hoping to re-examine the underlying program before it expired as part of its efforts to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA). Two years ago legislators missed a deadline to extend the program before they ultimately reauthorized it three months later...