NDC Leads Coalition Supporting Sen. Banks’ Bill to Repeal 90/10

The National Defense Committee led a coalition of nine military and veterans service organizations endorsing Senator Jim Banks’ (R-IN) Promoting Access and Revenue Integrity Through Institutional Transparency (PARITY) Act today.

Senator Banks recently asked the U.S. Department of Education for an updated analysis of the efficacy of the 90/10 Rule. This week, he introduced the PARITY Act, which would repeal the discriminatory regulation.

“The 90/10 Rule is not about protecting military or veterans’ educational benefits, but about protecting the historical market share of traditional four-year, brick-and-mortar, public and private nonprofit colleges,” the letter states.

The 90/10 Rule was applied only to career colleges, which are the fastest growing segment of higher education and are widely chosen by military, veteran, and other non-traditional students.

“To limit where and how veterans use [their] earned benefits is akin to telling military retirees, ‘Here’s your military retirement pension check. Thank you for your service. Now, you can only buy your groceries from the Commissary and not from Safeway or Kroger,’” the letter adds.

The 90/10 Rule is an arbitrary and ineffective measure of program performance, and now it has been “rendered meaningless” by new accountability measures required by the One Big Beautiful Bill, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump last year. 

“The 90/10 Rule represents a clear case of regulatory overreach that undermines the sacrifices of military members and veterans by treating their earned education benefits as a liability rather than an asset,” the letter concludes.

“The time has come for it to be relegated to the ash-heap of bureaucratic overreach and to free military and veteran students to make educational choices that best suit their needs.”

Read the Full Letter Here