September 25, 2023
CASE Letter to Rep. Aderholt: Stop GE Rule Before It’s Too Late
Earlier this month, CASE sent a letter to Congressman Robert Aderholt, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, and Education, urging him to include amendment language to the FY 2024 Department of Education appropriations bill that prohibits funding for the department to finalize its deeply flawed rule on Gainful Employment.
Here’s what you need to know:
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- This proposed rule would not apply to degrees from traditional public or expensive four-year universities, often where students rack up six figures in debt.
- The idea that students can only learn from programs that the DoE deems acceptable is wrong. The federal government should not be able to punish students who choose career colleges who primarily serve non-traditional learners, veterans, and working parents.
- To ensure students have all options available to them, the subcommittee ought to add in language that reins in President Biden’s Department of Education.
Read the full letter here and check out our College Freedom Project here to learn more.
WHAT’S NEW? Gainful Employment, Another Confusing Regulation – Hostile career college bureaucrats in the Obama administration curated it, and now it’s back. Essentially, they could “identify schools that perform poorly for many students, but the enforcement would again be selective, sparing graduate programs that the left loves.” Read more in the National Review here.
The Washington Examiner Editorial Board: End the Gravy Train for Anti-Speech Universities – “Parents and students, too, should look askance at institutions that trample free speech, and taxpayers and voters should respond more energetically against policies such as student loan forgiveness that subsidize the repressive regimes.” Read more here.
FOXX SIGHTING: Reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act To Help Job Seekers – Rep. Foxx told Campus Reform, “there are millions of unfilled jobs in the economy, yet WIOA provides skills development to fewer than 200,000 workers a year. As we work to reauthorize WOIA this Congress, we must apply a bigger emphasis on outcomes.” Read more here.
