The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Thursday voted along party lines, 12-11, for Keith Sonderling to serve as labor secretary. The nomination now heads to the full Senate for a final…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is among a group of higher education organizations supporting a Senate bill that they say is “one of the most significant opportunities in decades” to modernize the nation’s…
Community colleges have long been engines of opportunity. Every day, they prepare students to become nurses, teachers, entrepreneurs, engineers, public servants and business leaders. Yet colleges do something else that deserves equal attention. They prepare…
Colleges are on the hook for federal aid distributed to fraudulent applicants, according to the Education Department (ED). In a July 17 document that answers questions related to its new real-time FAFSA fraud detection initiative,…
Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering. But the colleges are short the millions they planned to receive…
Education officials have had high hopes for this month’s launch of the long-awaited Workforce Pell program. For the first time ever, students attending short-term vocational programs in fields like healthcare support and the skilled trades…
Apprenticeships were the top-of-mind workforce development topic at Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to be the permanent secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL). Questions over the two-hour hearing of…
In North Carolina, small business owners operating in the state’s eastern coastal region know it is likely only a matter of time before a hurricane disrupts their businesses and lives. But such storms are also…
The U.S. Education Department’s (ED) new FAFSA identity verification screening system, first implemented in April, has so far rejected more than 53,000 fraudulent applications, preventing more than $212 million in financial aid from being disbursed…
House Republicans last week introduced 10 bills that would begin to codify the Trump administration’s efforts to phase out the Education Department and move many of its duties to other federal agencies. “The legislative package…