Author: Breccan F. Thies

Education experts testified before the House on Wednesday about the continuing failures of the Biden administration’s botched rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Reps. Burgess Owens (R-UT) and Frederica Wilson (D-FL) convened a hearing of the Higher Education and Workforce Development subcommittee titled “FAFSA Fail: Examining the Impact on Students, Families,…

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden and the Department of Education on Tuesday, challenging the White House’s newest plan for student loan cancelation. Bailey, a Republican, was joined by the attorneys general of six other states in the lawsuit, which seeks to block a Biden plan to cancel the…

Universities around the country only recently received revised student financial aid data after months of delays — and the Biden administration is also requiring them to provide new employment metrics without telling them how to comply. Traditional universities, trade schools, certificate programs, and other forms of continued education are under the gun to provide the…

Over half of the country believes public K-12 education is heading in the wrong direction, with a majority of those concerned thinking teachers espousing their personal politics in the classroom is standing in the way, according to a new survey. The Pew Research survey, published Thursday, found that 51% of U.S. adults say the public…

Universities in Utah are up against a July 1 deadline to comply with the state’s new diversity, equity, and inclusion ban at colleges, but the legislation is unlikely to eliminate the ideology on campus. Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) signed legislation earlier this year paring back some DEI programs at the state’s universities and government offices,…

Bandages from brands such as Band-Aid and Curad have been found to contain dangerous levels of toxic “forever chemicals,” allowing direct contact with the bloodstream through open wounds, according to a new report. Of the 40 bandages from 18 different brands tested by environmental health and consumer watchdog Mamavation and Environmental Health News, 26 had…

Campus antisemitism is driving most Jewish families to eliminate at least one college from consideration, according to a new survey, after increased tensions since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. Sixty-four percent of prospective Jewish students have taken at least one school out of consideration, according to the poll from Jewish campus organization…

The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday about whether public funds can be used to support charter schools with religious affiliations. If the state Supreme Court rules in favor of the school, it could become the first Catholic charter school in the nation to operate with public money. “The U.S. Supreme Court has made…

Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy called on Tuesday for the end of mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion statements, calling them “ideological pledges of allegiance.” Kennedy wrote an op-ed as part of a Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard calling out DEI ideology and the practice of forcing prospective professors to submit a statement…

Several colleges have driven tuition prices up to nearly $100,000 knowing taxpayers will foot much of the bill through the federal financial aid system. Schools including Tufts University, Wellesley College, Boston University, and Yale University announced they are each charging more than $90,000 in tuition for the 2024-2025 academic year, with Tufts’s tuition at $95,888.…