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  • 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
  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks inside the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2023. House Republicans have narrowly passed a sweeping debt ceiling package as they try to push President Biden into negotiations on federal spending. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    Biden student loan relief plans would be ‘annihilated’ by House Republican debt ceiling bill

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 08: Rebekah Bruesehoff, a transgender student athlete, speaks at a press conference on LGBTQI+ rights, at the U.S. Capitol on March 08, 2023 in Washington, DC. Bruesehoff spoke out against the proposed national trans sports ban being considered by Republicans on the House Education and the Workforce Committee. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Politics

    Schools would be unable to outright ban trans athletes under a new Biden plan aimed at keeping all students ‘free from discrimination’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 21: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) workers and supporters rally on the first day of a three-day strike on March 21, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)Success

    ‘People are so frustrated’: Striking Los Angeles school support staff earn a paltry $25,000 on average

    By Jocelyn Gecker and Collin Binkley
  • Mia Woodard looks out of a window at her grandmother’s home on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 in Jackson, Tenn. Woodard is among hundreds of thousands of Americans who came of age during the pandemic but didn’t go to college. She hoped to be the first in her family to get a college degree, but in her senior year, she lost access to counselors and teachers who usually help students navigate college applications. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)Success

    The labor shortage is pushing American colleges into crisis, with the plunge in enrollment the worst ever recorded

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • US President Joe Biden speaks at the International Association of Fire Fighters legislative conference in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 6, 2023. The Biden administration is nearing completion of an executive order that would restrict investments by US companies in parts of the Chinese economy people familiar with the matter said. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    SoFi Bank sues to block Joe Biden’s pause on student loan payments that it say is costing it millions

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Joe Biden speaks about student debt reliefFinance

    Biden officials roll out ‘student loan safety net’ that will prevent borrowers getting overloaded with debt

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press