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    Trump wants to nix the Education Department. He should rebrand it instead.

    Trump wants to nix the Education Department. He should rebrand it instead.

    This blueprint of leaving the fundamentals of curriculum development to the states while providing best practices and tools and targeting funding to achieve big national goals is exactly what we need going forward.


    Short-term Pell pilot boosted enrollment but not earnings

    Short-term Pell pilot boosted enrollment but not earnings

    “The cost of expanding Pell Grant eligibility—about $1,800 per student in this study—should be considered against the evidence on the economic benefits of short and very short-term programs.”


    Harris needs to finish the job on for-profit college loan discharges

    Harris needs to finish the job on for-profit college loan discharges

    Our client, Jaime Maldonado, remembers nearly ten years ago when Harris, then her state's attorney general, announced findings of significant misconduct against thenow-defunct Corinthian Colleges.