NDC Urges Congress to Confirm Linda McMahon, Outlines Veterans’ Education Policy Priorities

NDC Urges Congress to Confirm Linda McMahon, Outlines Veterans’ Education Policy Priorities

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…

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…

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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