Even as Democrats introduced various bills to shore up persistently low-performing schools and to provide funds to ameliorate tax losses in some...
Leaders of the National Black Chamber of Commerce and the Hispanic Leadership Fund today asked the Obama administration to conduct a “minority...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today it is launching a new project focusing on America’s dropout problem in 20 cities where...
Patrick Corvington, who for the past 15 months has headed the Corporation for National and Community Service, told the staff Friday that...
For-profit colleges and their allies in the battle against greater regulation by the U.S. Department of Education spent more than $4.5 million...
For-profit colleges and universities aim their hard-sell marketing pitch at the kids who are least prepared to make informed choices and the...
For-profit colleges and universities aim their hard-sell marketing pitch at the kids who are least prepared to make informed choices and the...
The Education Department has issued its definition of what work must be accomplished to earn reimbursement from federal financial aid programs for...
The U.S. Department of Education has issued a letter that clarifies new rules covering activities of for-profit colleges that go into effect...
The Education Department’s proposed “gainful employment” rule got scant attention today at a full House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing called...
The Education Department’s proposed “gainful employment” rule got scant attention today at a full House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing called...
Charges of possible insider trading involving planned Department of Education rules on “gainful employment” standards for career colleges broke out into the...
The battle over government money for for-profit colleges moved into the Defense Department today as a Senate subcommittee heard how little the...
Alumni and groups that support the programs of the Corporation for National and Community Service – AmeriCorps, Learn and Service and the...
The 2011 Continuing Resolution is now in the U.S. Senate for consideration, facing a March 4 deadline. Most observers predict a showdown...
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 organizations, called on Congress today to defeat an...
Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, today introduced an amendment to the Republican’s Continuing Resolution...
President Barack Obama released his 2012 budget today, which would fund most youth-focused programs and agencies at equal or greater levels to...
Enrollment growth at community colleges slowed this fall, rising just 3.2 percent, dramatically less than the 11 percent and 17 percent increases...
The Government Accountability Office said today that an internal review of the need to issue a revised report on recruiting by for-profit...