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Experts fear 'catastrophic' college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rollout
Read full article: Experts fear 'catastrophic' college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rolloutThe bungled rollout of a new federal student aid form has left millions of students in limbo and some wondering if their college dreams will survive.
Largest Christian university in US faces record fine after federal probe into alleged deception
Read full article: Largest Christian university in US faces record fine after federal probe into alleged deceptionThe country’s largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal government amid accusations that it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs.
Feds: Thousands may have student debt that should be erased
Read full article: Feds: Thousands may have student debt that should be erasedA new federal report finds that record-keeping failures by the Education Department may have left thousands of Americans stuck with student debt that should have been forgiven.
Florida Coastal School of Law blocked from student loan program
Read full article: Florida Coastal School of Law blocked from student loan programFlorida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, the city’s only law school, has learned its application to get back into the federal student loan program has been denied.
Biden consumer watchdog pick signals more aggressive stance
Read full article: Biden consumer watchdog pick signals more aggressive stance(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)CHARLOTTE, N.C. – President Joe Biden's nominee to run the federal consumer watchdog agency indicated Tuesday that if confirmed he would restore more aggressive enforcement actions against companies and banks that largely faded during the Trump administration. On his first day in office, Biden asked President Donald Trump's CFPB director, Kathy Kraninger, to resign. Part of the law that overhauled the entire financial industry, the CFPB was given the mission to be an aggressive regulator and a watchdog for American consumers. He left the bureau in in the final days of the Obama administration to work for an outside consumer advocacy group. In 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Chopra to the FTC to fill the Democratic seat on the regulator.
In Ohio, open Senate seat sparks debate on gender, diversity
Read full article: In Ohio, open Senate seat sparks debate on gender, diversityAn open Senate seat in Ohio has set off a round of jockeying among ambitious Democrats and a spirited debate over who is best poised to lead a party comeback in a one-time battleground that has been trending Republican. While Acton and Ryan are believed to be the furthest along in their deliberations, several politicians who are Black are also eyeing the seat. The group is working to recruit a Black candidate for the Senate seat, he said. AdStill, Ryan got a boost Saturday when Hillary Clinton, the party’s 2016 presidential nominee, declared on Twitter that she was “all in” for a Ryan Senate candidacy. For some Ohio Democrats the cautionary tale is 2018, when a group of female gubernatorial candidates all ceded their ambitions to former Obama administration consumer chief Richard Cordray, who lost the race.