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  • FILE – The Jerry Colangelo Museum at Grand Canyon University is seen at at dusk in Phoenix, on Sept. 20, 2017. Grand Canyon University, the country’s largest Christian university, is being fined $37.7 million by the federal government amid accusations that it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)Finance

    Largest Christian university in U.S. hit with record $38m fine from Education Department for allegedly misleading students about program costs

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – President Joe Biden speaks on student loan debt forgiveness, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 4, 2023, in Washington. Biden’s second attempt at student loan cancellation is moving forward as a group of negotiators meets Oct. 10 to debate what a new proposal might look like(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Politics

    Biden administration’s second try at student loan relief will target those with ‘unreasonable’ debt loads, 25-year-old loans and other vulnerable groups

    By Collin Binkley, Seung Min Kim, and others
  • Ron DeSantis speaking at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire.Politics

    DeSantis bans Students for Justice in Palestine from Florida college campuses for providing ‘support’ to Hamas

    By Brendan Farrington, Collin Binkley, and others
  • President Joe Biden speaks on student loan debt forgivenessFinance

    Biden moves forward with second try at student loan cancellation after the Supreme Court rejected his first plan in June

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • PADCASTER President Jon Goldberg, left, and CEO Josh Apter, demonstrate their Padcaster Studio for remote and virtual learning, at EDTECHWEEK 2023, in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. As soon as the federal pandemic relief started arriving at America’s schools, tech companies by the dozens wanted a chance to prove that their software or equipment was exactly what schools needed. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Tech

    Educators alarmed by flood of $190 billion in federal spending: ‘When money is available, it’s like a vampire smelling blood’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Department of Education, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Success

    Biden’s education chief is looking to use ‘whatever levers’ he can to discourage colleges from giving admissions preference to alumni and donor children

    By Collin Binkley, Carole Feldman, and others
  • FILE – People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Washington. Two conservative groups are asking a federal court to block the Biden administration’s plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Politics

    Biden’s new plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans has been hit by a lawsuit from 2 conservative groups that want to block it

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University, Oct. 21, 2022, in Dover, Del. This summer, millions of Americans with student loans will be able to apply for a new repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms ever. Interest won’t pile up as long as borrowers make regular payments. Millions of people will have payments of $0. And starting in 2024, undergraduate loan payments will be reduced by half. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Politics

    Biden’s second plan to reduce student loan payments to $0 may be next legal battle with Republicans

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Harvard commencementSuccess

    Harvard slapped with lawsuit over legacy admissions: ‘Your family’s last name and the size of your bank account are not a measure of merit’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • EducationSuccess

    America’s kids just suffered the biggest plunge in math scores ever recorded

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Celina ChanthanouvongSuccess

    A 25-year-old with $25,000 of student debt is giving up on her dreams of a family: ‘It would be financially irresponsible for us to bring a human being into this world’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Celina Chanthanouvong stands with her cat in her apartment in Emeryville, Calif., on June 2, 2023. After a payment pause that has lasted more than three years, more than 40 million student loan borrowers will be on the hook for payments starting in late August. The pause in repayment has been a lifeline keeping 25-year-old Chanthanouvong afloat. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)Personal Finance

    40m Americans will soon have to restart student loan payments and experts fear ‘levels of default…we’ve never seen before’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 28: People rally in support of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan in front of the the U.S. Supreme Court on February 28, 2023 in Washington, DC. This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging President Joe Bidens student loan debt forgiveness program, which remains on hold after a lower court blocked the plan in November. The two cases Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, which could decide the fate of the program that aims to forgive an estimated $400 billion in student debt for 26 million borrowers. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Personal Finance

    Senate votes to block Biden’s $20,000 student loan forgiveness plan. Without his veto, relief would be ‘snatched away’ from borrowers

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Activists demonstrate as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, in Washington, Oct. 31, 2022. As the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action, most Americans say the court should allow consideration of race as part of the admissions process, yet few believe students’ race should play a significant role in decisions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    Most Americans say colleges should be able to use affirmative action in admissions, but race should play a small role, new poll shows

    By Collin Binkley, Emily Swanson, and others
  • Graduates during the Columbia University commencement convocation in New YorkPolitics

    Biden administration plans to cut federal money for college programs that leave grads underemployed and over-indebted

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press