Education

Biden Leaves Behind a Graveyard of Higher Ed Policies

From Inside Higher Education: “Nearly four years ago, President Biden took office with ambitious plans to relieve millions of borrowers from student debt, protect trans students from discrimination and crack down on for-profit institutions. Getting that done required the president to use executive power to issue new rules and regulations and rewrite those put in place by the Trump administration. But now many of the current Education Department’s most pressing agenda items, particularly those aimed at bolstering consumer protections for students, remain dead in the water…(However) the policies that have survived, such as making debt relief for public servants easier to access and opening up the Pell Grant to students in prison, will have a lasting impact, advocates say.”

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