Obama Administration Announces New Steps to Protect Students from Ineffective Career College Programs. Today, the Obama Administration released final regulations requiring career college programs to better prepare students for "gainful employment" or risk losing access to Federal student aid. While many career college programs are helping to prepare America's workforce for the jobs of the future, far too many students at these schools are taking on unsustainable debt in exchange for degrees and certificates that fail to help them get the jobs they need or were promised. These regulations are designed to ramp up over the next four years, giving colleges time to reform while protecting students and their families from exploitative programs. "These new regulations will help ensure that students at these schools are getting what they pay for: solid preparation for a good job," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said.
The Need for and History of Reform "While for-profit schools have profited and prospered thanks to Federal dollars, some of their students have not. Obama Administration Announces New Steps to Protect Students from Ineffective Career College Programs. The Student Loan Forgiveness Act: H.R. 4170: To increase purchasing power, strengthen economic recovery, and restore fairness in financing higher education in the United States through student loan forgiveness, caps on interest rates on Federal student lo.
Order determined by social media popularity Endorsing Organizations Aging With Student Debt 172 Facebook fans 154 Twitter followers This is a fair and sound approach to providing relief to past, current and future borrowers. It addresses the pitfalls of the current IBR plan for Federal student loans and provides much needed relief for Private student loan borrowers. Read full position statement. More Info: Student Debt Reform Generational Justice 2 Facebook fans 144 Twitter followers FFEL/DL Borrowers Benefit. The group who is definitively helped by this legislation will be primary care physicians in low-SES areas, who would receive PSLF, without the 2 part PSLF test or even if they are at a for-profit practice.
Read full position statement. Other Statements Association of American Medical Colleges 23,341 Facebook fans 12,988 Twitter followers March 16, 2012—Rep. According to a March 12 press statement, Rep. Read full position statement. Last week Rep. Read full position statement. Silent Majority: California's War on its Students. S.1102: Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2011. Close 114th Congress: We're updating with new data as it becomes available. A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, with respect to certain exceptions to discharge in bankruptcy. view all titles (2) This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it. Bill’s Views Today: 1 Past Seven Days: 5 All-Time: 3,294 Official Summary Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2011 - Revises federal bankruptcy law with respect to the exemption from the exception to discharge in bankruptcy for certain educational loans if excepting such debt from discharge would impose an undue hardship on the debtor and debtor's depend Official Summary ...Read the Rest Organizations Supporting S.1102 Organizations Opposing S.1102 None via MapLight at this time.
Latest Letters to Congress See All Letters (27) Vote on This Bill 100% Users Support Bill 25 in favor / 0 opposed Track with MyOC. R. 2028: Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2011 (GovTrack.us) GovTrack’s Bill Summary We don’t have a summary available yet. Library of Congress Summary The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress. 5/26/2011--Introduced. Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the federal bankruptcy code to remove qualified educational loans as an exception to discharge from bankruptcy.
House Republican Conference Summary The summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives. No summary available. House Democratic Caucus Summary The House Democratic Caucus does not provide summaries of bills. So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference’s summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. We’ll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Pub. L. 95-109; 91 Stat. 874, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1692 –1692p, approved on September 20, 1977 (and as subsequently amended) is a consumer protection amendment, establishing legal protection from abusive debt collection practices, to the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as Title VIII of that Act.
The statute's stated purposes are: to eliminate abusive practices in the collection of consumer debts, to promote fair debt collection, and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy.[1] The Act creates guidelines under which debt collectors may conduct business, defines rights of consumers involved with debt collectors, and prescribes penalties and remedies for violations of the Act. It is sometimes used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. People and entities covered by the FDCPA[edit] In the federal tax case of Smith v. John Boehner. John Boehner currently serves the 8th Congressional district of Ohio John Andrew Boehner, a Republican, has represented the 8th Congressional district of Ohio in the U.S.
House of Representatives since 1993. He is the Speaker of the House, 112th Congress since January 2011. Boehner previously served as the House Majority Leader from 2006 until 2007 and House Minority Leader from 2007 until 2010.[1] Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council Boehner is an alumnus of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), being a member when he was an Ohio State Representative from 1985-1990.
Healthcare reform Following the end of an almost four hour debate on H.R.4872, Boehner took the floor and proclaimed, acknowledging likely passage, that he had a "sad and heavy heart. " Record and controversies Iraq War Boehner voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 that started the Iraq War.[3] Statements and action on the Iraq war 2007 Iraq spending bill Rep. Bayh-Dole Act. Enacted on December 12, 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act (P.L. 96-517, Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of 1980) created a uniform patent policy among the many federal agencies that fund research, enabling small businesses and non-profit organizations, including universities, to retain title to inventions made under federally-funded research programs.This legislation was co-sponsored by Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana and Robert Dole of Kansas.The Bayh-Dole Act was especially instrumental in encouraging universities to participate in technology transfer activities.
The Act is "perhaps the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half-century," according to The Economist. Major provisions of the Act include: Over the years, various groups have expressed support or questions about the Bayh-Dole Act. Other countries with similar Bayh-Dole legislation: Bayh-Dole Act Archives AUTM has long advocated for the Bayh-Dole Act. Auction 2012: For-Profit Colleges Win When Lobbying Blitz Weakens Regs. Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. As the Great Recession propelled millions into the ranks of the unemployed more than three years ago, one industry in particular saw a surge in new business: for-profit higher education.
Enrollments and revenues skyrocketed at publicly traded corporations such as Education Management Corp. and Bridgepoint Education, which aggressively promoted degree programs said to offer crucial job training. The swift growth captured the attention of the Obama administration: Data showed that for-profit colleges accounted for nearly half of the defaults on federal student loans, despite educating only about 10 percent of the nation's college students. Beginning in 2010, the administration announced a broad package of new regulations that would crack down on programs that leave students with outsized debt and few career prospects.
During a hearing on for-profit colleges last year, Sen. Don't blame for-profit colleges for the higher-ed lobbying epidemic - Education. The last two years have not been kind to for-profit colleges. Claims of widespread fraud and abuse have led to multi-million dollar lawsuits, increased scrutiny from Democratic policymakers, and a new set of regulations designed to hold for-profit institutions accountable for their graduates' future employment. The for-profits responded as most firms in the cross-hairs of federal regulators do: They hired lobbyists. Lots of them. When the Obama administration softened the proposed regulations, many observers chalked it up to the costly lobbying effort. Since for-profits get most of their revenue from federal student aid, millions of dollars in lobbying raises questions about whose interests, exactly, are being protected. For many on the left, the lobbying campaign reinforced the conventional wisdom that, when given a choice between educating students or serving their own private interests, for-profits in education will spend more on the latter.
But context matters. Andrew P. For-profit schools lobby to avoid proposed federal aid rule. Companies that run colleges and trade schools for profit are mounting a full-tilt, high-dollar campaign against an Obama administration effort to tighten rules for their access to federal aid. The industry has staged a Capitol Hill rally, run advertisements in national newspapers, hired big-name lobbyists and coordinated thousands of comments on the proposed regulation in an effort to derail or dilute it.
This month, industry executives are beginning a round of private meetings with senior Education Department officials to argue their case. At stake is a lucrative source of funding for a sector of higher education that serves about one of every 10 postsecondary students and has more than doubled its market share in the past decade. Stocks of for-profit colleges have fallen sharply in recent months amid warnings about how the proposed rules could shake up the schools. 'Their livelihood' "It's their livelihood," said Mark Kantrowitz, a college-finance analyst with the Web site FinAid.
How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit. “As universities become glorified vocational schools for corporations they adopt values and operating techniques of the corporations they serve.” – Chris Hedges (Empire of Illusion, 2009) This piece has been republished by The Berkeley Daily Planet. A version of it also ran in the Sacramento News & Review, Santa Cruz Weekly, North Bay Bohemian, and the SF Public Press. Analysis from California Watch, The Aggie, Huffington Post, KCSB Radio, SFBG, The Daily Nexus and more.
The story has been nominated for a Project Censored Award and has won the SPJ Northern California Chapter's James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Journalism. Part One: The Investor's Club - Published below. Introduction and overview of the 8-part investigation. See Part Two: The Smell Test How to tell the difference between a conflict of interest and a coincidence. See Part Three: The Regents' Club Conflicts of interest are nothing new at UC, but they are getting worse. See Part Four: Seven Private Equity Deals.