The Department of Education announced a sweeping regulatory process that will affect many aspects of federal student aid and institutional accountability. Many of the issues identified to be tackled have been previously addressed in a back and forth cycle of regulatory rewrites that have spanned both the Obama and Trump administrations and the federal courts.
The negotiated rulemaking committees being proposed by the Department are designed to develop draft regulations on the affordability of postsecondary education, institutional accountability and stability, and federal student loans. The Department is also inviting public input on how it can address, through its Title IV regulations, gaps in postsecondary outcomes such as retention, completion, loan repayment, and student loan default by race, ethnicity, gender, and other key student characteristics.
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