It isn’t hard to find examples of government incompetence, especially from the Department of Education (DoEd). Their ongoing fumbling of the rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), as one example, is a reminder that government just doesn’t work properly for average people. And now, the New York Times is reporting FAFSA will be delayed yet again, again jeopardizing student’s access to federal grants, work-study programs, and loans.
Incompetence, however, is far from the worst attribute of the Biden-Harris DoEd. For four years they have waged a savage ideological attack against non-traditional and career-oriented colleges, using their power over the student loan process to bring these schools to heel. If not reversed, the effect on college choice and our nation’s work force will be devastating.
My organization dove into the administration’s bias in our newest report, titled “Cardona Bias.” We discovered the Department of Education uses three tactics to target career colleges while pushing the Biden-Harris free-college agenda.
Recent selective enforcement actions reveal how a biased Student Financial Aid Office of Enforcement exists almost exclusively to prosecute unconventional schools while the administration pursues an extreme “settle-and-sue” strategy to carry out unchecked student loan bailouts.
The Biden-Harris administration has routinely used the DoED to advance its political bias against career colleges schools that offer flexible schedules and are popular among working parents, veterans, and minorities.
The Wall Street Journal dubbed Generation Z the “Toolbelt Generation,” and rightly so. An unmistakable trend has taken hold in higher education with more students turning their backs on the traditional four-ear diploma and toward colleges that provide skilled training for in-demand, high-paid jobs. Last year, enrollment in vocational schools rose 16%, with students studying construction trades up 23% over the past five years. At the same time, Gallup found Americans’ confidence in higher education has fallen to 36%, a sharp decline from just a few years ago.
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