National Defense Committee Statement on Gainful Employment Deadline Extension by Education Department

National Defense Committee Statement on Gainful Employment Deadline Extension by Education Department

The National Defense Committee released the following statement after the Department of Education announced an extension of the reporting deadline for its Gainful Employment and Financial Transparency regulations: “The Department of Education has finally demonstrated some common sense by delaying the reporting…

Rep. Burgess Owens and Bob Carey: Dept. of Education’s Selective Regulation Hurts Our Military

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…

Op-Ed: Regulators’ Disdain for Alternative Higher Education Options Hurts Veterans

Op-Ed: Regulators’ Disdain for Alternative Higher Education Options Hurts Veterans

Military members’ and veterans’ education benefits are not grants from the federal government; they are earned benefit payments in exchange for services rendered, National Defense Committee executive director Bob Carey writes in the Odgen Standard-Examiner. But the U.S. Department of…

NDC Talks Education Benefits, Recruitment, and Veterans with Congressman Burgess Owens

NDC Talks Education Benefits, Recruitment, and Veterans with Congressman Burgess Owens

National Defense Committee was honored to host Congressman Burgess Owens today for a discussion on Education Benefits, Recruitment, and Veterans at the Republican National Convention. Congressman Owens is a tireless advocate for active-duty military members and veterans—America’s heroes—and has worked…

NDC Executive Director to House Committee: “VA Cannot Be Trusted” on Veterans’ Gun Rights

NDC Executive Director to House Committee: “VA Cannot Be Trusted” on Veterans’ Gun Rights

National Defense Committee Executive Director Bob Carey testified today before the House Veterans Affairs Committee on the urgent need to pass the Veterans 2nd Amendment Restoration Act. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has indiscriminately violated veterans’ rights for decades—not…

Department of Education Protects Traditional Higher Ed

Department of Education Protects Traditional Higher Ed by Demanding Different Rules for Career Colleges

As students flee four-year colleges and with public confidence in higher education at historic lows, crusading activist bureaucrats seek to prop up and perpetuate traditional universities’ government-mandated market advantages by selectively limiting access to career colleges. As NDC noted in…

Students Are Fleeing Four-Year Colleges Amid Skyrocketing Costs, Reckless Spending, Subpar Value

Students Are Fleeing Four-Year Colleges Amid Skyrocketing Costs, Reckless Spending, Subpar Value

The Department of Education has gone to great lengths to single out, penalize, and publicly smear career colleges, faith-based schools, and other innovative, non-traditional higher education options. These exertions are part of a bigger effort to prop up and maintain…

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