PERSPECTIVES: First, Adjustments Made to the House Budget Bill, Now Senate Republicans Want to Change This

From Inside Higher Education: “The proposed plan would cut some programs off from federal loans if their students don’t earn more than an adult with a high school diploma…. Some say the Senate’s proposed earnings test is likely to succeed and become law, as it aligns more with a conservative federalist ideology when compared to the House’s plan. But others view this new accountability measure as just that—new. “They’re not looking at the Biden gainful-employment rules and saying, ‘Oh, this was a good thing. Let’s do it like they did.’ They’re taking a different approach,” said Jason Altmire, president of Career Education Colleges and Universities, the national trade association representing for-profit institutions, which criticized the Biden regulations. He also noted that including all types of colleges is “a huge difference from the way the two last Democratic administrations approached gainful employment.” Read the complete account here.

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