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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on student loan debt at Madison College, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Personal Finance

Biden says his new plan to ease student loan debt would offer ‘life-changing’ relief to more than 30 million borrowers

By Darlene Superville, Collin Binkley, and others

Joe Biden

Biden to take fresh stab at canceling billions in student debt, sources say

By Seung Min Kim, Collin Binkley, and others

Miguel Cardona

Oops. Education Dept. discovers calculation error in over 200,000 students’ financial aid applications

By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press

FILE – Wheaton College students stop to chat on the Norton, Mass. campus, Feb. 13, 2024 as snow falls. More than 75 million student loan borrowers have enrolled in the U.S. government’s newest repayment plan since it launched in August. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP, File)

Personal Finance

What to know about SAVE, the Biden administration’s newest income-driven plan to repay student loans

By Adriana Morga, Collin Binkley, and others

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks on student loan debt forgiveness, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 4, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration will start canceling student loans for some borrowers starting in February as part of a new repayment plan. Cancellation was originally set to begin in July under the new SAVE repayment plan, but it’s being unrolled ahead of schedule to provide faster relief to borrowers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden accelerates new student loan cancelation plan that will benefit some Americans starting in February

By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press

US President Joe Biden speaks at an economic event at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Biden said it is “self-evident” that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist but declined to endorse a Colorado Supreme Court decision that would bar the Republican presidential frontrunner from appearing on the ballot in that state. Photographer: Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Personal Finance

The Biden administration is docking $2 million from 3 student loan servicers for botching the return to repayment

By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press

Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Lawmakers on the education committee will grill the leaders of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about their responses to protests that erupted after the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Photographer: Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Under fire, Penn and Harvard’s presidents walk back their comments about antisemitism and genocide: ‘It’s evil, plain and simple’

By Annie Ma, Collin Binkley, and others

Schools

School children around the world saw an ‘unprecedented drop in performance’ during the pandemic, global study finds

By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press

Miguel Cardona

Feds investigate 7 schools over allegations of antisemitism, Islamophobia—including 3 Ivy League colleges

By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press

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)

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)

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.

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 forgiveness

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)

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)

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