After years of a regulatory framework that stifled higher education competition and student choice, the 119th Congress’ Reconciliation Budget bill could finally repeal two of the Department of Education’s most burdensome regulations—the 90/10 and Gainful Employment rules, NDC Executive Director Bob…
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…
On Veterans Day, we honor the brave Americans who answered the call of duty and served in uniform. But it’s also a reminder of a difficult reality: Our military is experiencing a recruiting crisis. And our educational benefits policies are…
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…
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…
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…
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