California
Plans to build affordable housing for 400 community college students at Cerritos College are drafted, featuring communal kitchens and spaces where tutors and mental health specialists can visit students…
A handful of California cities are enforcing laws that protect tenants from eviction or rent increases, extending pandemic-era policies that most of the country wound down more than a year ago…
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed mandatory screenings for dyslexia at schools, lending key support to imperiled legislation and repudiating the longtime stance of the state's largest teachers union…
A proposal to pay Black people in California up to $1.2 million in restitution for slavery ran into political headwinds as Governor Gavin Newsom and a lawmaker who was on the state panel raised doubts about the prospect of cash payments…
Governor Newsom is proposing to cut or delay nearly $10 billion in spending as California's projected budget deficit grows to $31.5 billion, touching off the toughest budget negotiations in a decade…
Student Loan Cancellation
A Michigan legal advocacy organization wants a federal judge to force the Education Department to restart payments, arguing that the ongoing student loan payment pause is unlawful…
The Education Department has discharged $42 billion through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program since October 2021…
The Office of Federal Student Aid faces a “colossal undertaking” as it prepares to resume student loan payments after an unprecedented three-year pause, and funding constraints could hamper that effort, student loan experts say…
The cost of borrowing money from the federal government to pay for college is set to jump to the highest level in at least a decade…
House Republicans on the Education and Workforce Committee advanced a resolution on Wednesday, 5/10, on a party-line vote to overturn President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan…
NBC News reviewed student loan forgiveness policies in states in which a Republican governor has called for an end to President Biden's plan or a Republican attorney general has sued to stop it…
Regardless of where the Supreme Court comes out on President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, education debt isn’t going away…
President and Administration
The Education Department and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will take new steps to promote the use of Bipartisan Safer Communities Act funds (BSCA), the White House said Sunday, 5/14, after President Biden ordered his Cabinet to report their progress on implementing the gun safety law in March…
The Senate has confirmed Glenna Wright-Gallo as assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services at the U.S. Department of Education…
On Tuesday, 5/9, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued the “Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications” —a temporary rule that extends telemedicine flexibilities adopted during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE)…
Another independent forecaster projects that the U.S. could slam into the debt ceiling as soon as early June…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he wanted an agreement on raising the debt limit and cutting federal spending by this week…
President Biden on Tuesday, 5/9, said he was “considering” the use of the 14th amendment as a means to circumvent the debt ceiling standoff he currently finds himself in with House Republicans…
A new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) estimates how much-insured people might pay for different types of COVID-19 tests…
Congress
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) is bullish about his ability to produce a budget resolution…
On Sunday, 5/14, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said that there could be a ‘popular revolt,’ if the Supreme Court blocks some kinds of gun control legislation…
Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), the top Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, said Congress will have to go after admissions barriers for underrepresented students if the Supreme Court decides to strike down the use of race in college admissions…
Education
Ed Choice recently released a report entitled “Teens and Their Schooling Perspectives,” which reveals that teens indicate their lives have improved in many areas since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic…
A December 2022 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper found that teen suicide rates plummeted in March 2020, when schools across the United States closed their doors and shifted learning online…
Catholic Church leaders in Oklahoma could within weeks get the go-ahead to create the nation’s first explicitly religious, taxpayer-supported charter school…
My daughter knows I am going to move mountains. This is why I decided to attend Charter Family Hill Day this year alongside 40 other public charter parents from nine states and the District of Columbia…
According to a new report from a government watchdog group, charter schools that received federal funding for start-up costs were less likely to close within five years than those without the financial boost…
A month after Education Department Secretary Miguel Cardona called the sluggish pace 'unacceptable,' only one state has distributed money from the post-Uvalde law…
One of several changes coming to the new version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid will make it easier for students who are at risk of or are experiencing homelessness to access financial aid…
The Common Application released a report on its applications from students who are seeking to transfer, not gain admission for the first time…
