For years higher education policy has been marked by regulatory double standards and discriminatory rules. The 90/10 Rule and Gainful Employment Rule, specifically, selectively target career colleges, cornering students into conventional public and private schools. The PARITY Act, introduced recently by…
Nearly three years since the publication of its flagship Condescending Paternalism report, the National Defense Committee released a new, in-depth follow-up analysis today: Condescending Paternalism 2.0: How the Department of Education and Congress Are Collaborating to Restore Veterans’ EARNED Education Benefits. During the first…
The Senate HELP Committee announced it will hold a confirmation hearing for Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Education, on Thursday, February 13. The National Defense Committee urges Congress to approve Ms. McMahon’s…
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…
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…
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…
We have written a lot about the Department of Education’s efforts to paint career colleges as a scam that saddles veterans with debt and leaves them unprepared for life after a degree. In reality, career colleges offer non-traditional students a…
Compliant members of Congress and government officials, upon whom traditional four-year universities lavish millions in political campaign contributions and lobbying support, seem only too willing to perpetuate a false narrative against career colleges. The problem is the traditional liberal arts…
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…
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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