President and Administration
The President’s Advisory Commission on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics will provide advice to the President on matters pertaining to educational equity and economic opportunity for the Hispanic and Latino community…
The House and Senate are out for the month…
This guide offers information and tips to disaster responders and first responders to help them manage stress during crisis response…
Last week the White House released its five-pillar strategy to end hunger by 2030 in advance of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health…
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) is set to consider Wednesday, 10/5, its most drastic reduction of production since the pandemic in order to help prop up falling oil prices, a move that could put pressure on global economic growth…
Education
The 2023-24 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) launched on Saturday, 10/1 at 1:00 A.M. ET…
A new study suggests that students choose to stop out of college and others choose not to enroll in the first place because of a range of “psychographics…”
Fewer than half of Hispanic students said they were excited about the start of the semester…
LGBTQ students whose college or university provides mental health services had 84 percent lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year than those who had no access, according to a new brief from The Trevor Project…
Charter advocates were partially successful three months ago in getting the U.S. Department of Education to ease what they saw as onerous new rules for a program that provides start-up funds to new schools…
On Wednesday, 9/28, the Office of Educational Technology (OET) launched the “Advancing Digital Equity for All: Community-based Recommendations for Developing Effective Digital Equity Plans to Close the Digital Divide and Enable Technology-Empowered Learning…”
When students or others don’t know how to report or aren’t willing to do so, important opportunities to protect students may be missed…
Student Loans
President Biden struck a defiant note against Republican attacks of his student debt relief plan over the weekend — after a week where the proposal faced a wave of legal challenges and his administration scaled back part of the policy…
The Biden administration’s student debt-relief plan will cost about $30 billion a year over the next ten years, according to an estimate from the U.S. Department of Education…