11/8/19  //  Uncategorized

On this week’s special edition of Uncle Charlie's Sanctions Corner–wait, we mean Versus Trump—Jason, Charlie, and Easha bring on Eileen Connor of the Project on Predatory Student to discuss a major opinion issuing sanctions against the Department of Education. Listen now!

9/5/19  //  In-Depth Analysis

This week on Versus Trump, Jason discusses the continuing illegal intransigence of the Department of Education, with Eileen Connor and Toby Merrill of Harvard's Project on Predatory Student Lending. Listen now!

10/31/17  //  Daily Update

The Administration is dismantling key Title IX enforcement regulations.

10/1/17  //  Daily Update

The Department of Education rescinded two Obama-era guidelines regarding campus sexual assault.

9/7/17  //  Commentary

On this week’s episode of Versus Trump, as summer ends and a new school begins, we re-air Jason's interview with Toby Merrill, the director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School, about several lawsuits she's involved with against newly-confirmed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. We'll be back soon with new episodes.

8/20/17  //  Daily Update

Education Secretary DeVos is moving ahead with school choice programs.

8/6/17  //  Daily Update

DOE Secretary Betsy DeVos is no longer pursuing plans to overhaul student loan servicing.

8/3/17  //  Uncategorized

On this week’s episode of Versus Trump, Jason has an interview with Toby Merrill, the director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School, about several lawsuits she's involved with against newly-confirmed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Listen now!

7/23/17  //  Daily Update

Education Secretary Betsy Devos announced her intention to return the Department of Educations's Office of Civil Rights to "neutrality."

6/28/17  //  In-Depth Analysis

Alexandra Brodsky on how the Department of Education has retreated from civil rights enforcement and hid behind unlawful opacity.

6/25/17  //  Daily Update

Department of Education announces it will postpone the Obama-era "borrower defense" final rule.

5/17/17  //  Commentary

With briefing almost completed in G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, it’s good to remember the way in which the case can be resolved on straightforward statutory grounds without deciding whether Title IX prohibits discrimination against transgender persons, as such.

4/14/17  //  Commentary

Education Secretary Betsy DeDos has jettisoned memos that hold student loan services accountable for past performance. That hurts everyone except her buddies in the loan servicing industry.

4/17/17  //  Commentary

Privatization and decentralization of public education will return the U.S. to the days when students with disabilities were out-of-sight and out-of-mind, without meaningful education. Public schools could become the new institutions.

5/11/17  //  Commentary

Higher graduation rates nationwide have left students with disabilities even further behind.

5/12/17  //  Commentary

President Donald Trump is known for changing his political views after a ten-minute history lesson. In this continuing feature, I encourage the president to take a few minutes to learn about the historical background of things he says. This first edition, on his signing statement regarding HBCUs, concerns one of his favorite historical topics: A nineteenth-century general who saw the Civil War coming, was angry, and did something about it.

4/16/17  //  Daily Update

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has weakened consumer protections for student loan borrowers

4/2/17  //  Daily Update

President Trump has signed bills repealing rules addressing teacher preparation and school accountability.

4/30/17  //  Daily Update

A coalition of 21 state attorneys general wrote a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, criticizing her decision to withdraw federal guidance issued by the Obama administration to increase consumer protections in student loan servicing. President Trump signed an executive order requiring Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to conduct a review of whether the federal government exceeded its legal authority in K-12 schools.

6/11/17  //  Daily Update

Senators called upon Education Secretary DeVos to explain the proposed budget for the Department of Education.

4/23/17  //  Daily Update

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has made moves to reduce student-loan accountability and withdraw Obama-era policy guidance on student loan servicing.

6/18/17  //  Daily Update

The Department of Education rescinded Obama-era rules designed to expand a system for erasing federal loan debt of students defrauded by for-profit colleges.

7/9/17  //  Daily Update

States are challenging the administration's delay of regulations of for-profit schools.