I was fired from the US Department of Education for cost-cutting efforts. A year later, we don't know of any significant budgetary savings.

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In February 2025, the White House issued two Executive Orders with the goals of transforming the Federal workforce and Federal spending on contracts, grants, and loans.

My students want their education to matter to the people and places they are accountable to.

Read the CFPB report the Trump administration cut and scrubbed, which includes information on a higher-education surveillance pricing scheme.

Local universities rely on the agency in order to disburse financial aid disbursement, create new programs, or merge with other institutions. Now, they're scrambling.

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Since mid-March, the Trump administration has blocked me and hundreds of others from doing any work while we continue to receive full pay and benefits.

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Alliance native Bradley Custer was recently let go from the U.S. Department of Education. He writes about what could happen to education without it.

The CFPB released the annual report of the Student Loan Ombudsman, highlighting severe difficulties reported by student borrowers in consumer complaints.

Written by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Educatio…

The Education Department wants the company to improve its management amid problems with billing and a backlog of repayment plan applications.