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Last month, National Defense Committee executive director Bob Carey participated in a forum hosted by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE). The event highlighted the negative impacts of the U.S. Department of Education’s selective regulation against career-education institutions and distance learning…
ICYMI: You Can Die for Your Country, But You Can’t Go to a Career College
In the Biden Administration’s effort to prop up failing conventional four-year colleges and universities, the Department of Education has put “mountains of red tape between veterans and their college choices,” Bob Carey wrote in RealClear Education last fall. Military service…
Bob Carey in Stars & Stripes: 119th Congress Should Restore Veterans’ Education Rights
The Senate education committee held a confirmation hearing today for Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education. Congress should move quickly to approve Ms. McMahon’s nomination so she can begin correcting the past four…
Military & Veteran Students Choose Higher Education Options that Work for Them
Military members and veterans aren’t typical college students. They are usually older than their classmates, often times have families, are looking to get the skills they need for their next jobs, and are also balancing the integration from military service…
Spotlight: Condescending Paternalism Report
Over the past decade, the Department of Education has painted career colleges as predatory schools eager to prey on naïve military veterans to feather their own pockets. It has been aided in this public smear campaign by allies on Capitol…
Rep. Burgess Owens and Bob Carey: Dept. of Education’s Selective Regulation Hurts Our Military
The U.S. military is in the midst of a recruiting crisis, and the U.S. Department of Education’s and the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affair’s micro-management of how and where military members and veterans can use their earned education benefits is…