Trump's And Biden's Plans For Education
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump's And Biden's Plans For Education

NPR  

Trump's And Biden's Plans For Education Enlarge this image Caroline Amenabar/NPR; Joe Hall/Flickr Caroline Amenabar/NPR; Joe Hall/Flickr Key priorities Joe Biden Make public colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions tuition-free for families making less than $125,000. Biden's plans for education Biden is advocating to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for students with family incomes under $125,000. Sponsor Message Biden also wants to extend the 2017 proposal to include private historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions. On tackling federal student debt, Biden pledges to forgive student borrowers who graduate from public universities and private historically Black colleges and universities and make less than $125,000.

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Some student loan borrowers may have to pay more under Trump
1 month, 1 week ago

Some student loan borrowers may have to pay more under Trump

Salon  

Around 8 million student loan borrowers might see their monthly payments double if President-elect Donald Trump dismantles President Joe Biden's repayment plan, according to CNBC. But Trump has criticized broad-based student loan forgiveness and called Biden’s student loan relief program “vile” during his campaign. Bob Eitel, who served during the first Trump administration as a senior counselor to the education …

'Can’t just disappear': Experts consider key Trump promise almost impossible to achieve
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Can’t just disappear': Experts consider key Trump promise almost impossible to achieve

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to get rid of the U.S. Department of Education will be far easier said than done. In a statement, the South Dakota Republican said “the federal Department of Education has never educated a single student, and it’s long past time to end this bureaucratic Department that causes more harm than good.” The Heritage Foundation’s …

What the next Trump presidency could mean for US education
1 month, 4 weeks ago

What the next Trump presidency could mean for US education

CNN  

Washington CNN — President-elect Donald Trump has laid out some big changes for education in the US. Much of his platform focuses on rolling back the federal government’s role in schools and giving states and parents more of a say in what children learn, with the goal of rooting out any “left-wing indoctrination.” Trump’s campaign also hammered Democrats over transgender …

Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education. He vowed to use federal money as leverage
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education. He vowed to use federal money as leverage

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump has depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left. Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.” The president-elect wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism. There is no evidence that our American education system …

Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education. He has vowed to use federal money as leverage
2 months ago

Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education. He has vowed to use federal money as leverage

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “ wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.” The president-elect wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism. There is no evidence that our American education system is full of maniacs.” Trump’s platform calls for “massive funding preferences” for states and …

Trump wants to end 'wokeness' in education, forbid lessons on gender identity
2 months ago

Trump wants to end 'wokeness' in education, forbid lessons on gender identity

India Today  

Donald Trump's vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination.” The president-elect wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports. On his first day in office, Trump has repeatedly said he will cut money to “any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or …

Trump wants to end 'wokeness' in education, vows to use federal money as leverage
2 months ago

Trump wants to end 'wokeness' in education, vows to use federal money as leverage

New Indian Express  

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America's schools of perceived " wokeness " and "left-wing indoctrination." Now that he's won the White House, he plans to use federal money as leverage to advance his vision of education across the nation. On his first day in office, Trump has repeatedly said he will cut …

Commentary: Education gets short shrift from Trump and Harris on the presidential campaign trail
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Commentary: Education gets short shrift from Trump and Harris on the presidential campaign trail

LA Times  

Once again, education hasn’t made the grade as a serious and important campaign issue. He wants to open parent choice, to the point of allowing widespread vouchers that include religious schools, even though it’s not the parents who pay for public education. Harris has had even less to say, mainly limiting herself to brief mentions of continuing some kind of …

Biden pitches student loan relief plan, 23 million Americans may benefit
9 months ago

Biden pitches student loan relief plan, 23 million Americans may benefit

India Today  

President Joe Biden announced on Monday plans to ease student debt that would benefit at least 23 million Americans, addressing a key issue for young voters whose support he needs as he seeks re-election in November. Republicans have called Biden's student loan forgiveness approach an overreach of his authority and an unfair benefit to college-educated borrowers while other borrowers received …

Biden proposes new student-debt relief. Here’s who would benefit
9 months, 1 week ago

Biden proposes new student-debt relief. Here’s who would benefit

LA Times  

The Biden administration is proposing a rule to reduce or erase the debts of millions of student-loan borrowers. After months of hearings and negotiations, the Biden administration announced its latest plans Monday for student debt relief, proposing changes that would save about 30 million borrowers billions of dollars in total. Debt cancellation for students at schools or programs that were …

Parents like private school vouchers so much that demand is exceeding budgets in some states
1 year, 2 months ago

Parents like private school vouchers so much that demand is exceeding budgets in some states

Associated Press  

In some states, higher-income families can now use taxpayer money to cover private school tuition -- and more people than projected are taking the offer, which might force scrambles to shore up state budgets. It’s especially an issue in states like Arizona and Iowa, where at least some families whose children were already in private school can now take advantage …

What will Biden’s new plan mean for borrowers set to begin paying back their student loans?
1 year, 6 months ago

What will Biden’s new plan mean for borrowers set to begin paying back their student loans?

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Following the Supreme Court’s decision to effectively kill Biden’s earlier student debt forgiveness proposal, the White House is trying again to ease the burden on those carrying student loans using a different legal approach. Biden said the authority of the act will provide “the best path that remains to provide as many borrowers as possible with debt …

What Biden Plans to Do Next About Student Debt
55 years ago

What Biden Plans to Do Next About Student Debt

Slate  

The Supreme Court just undid what was meant to be a signature achievement of President Joe Biden’s presidency: a student debt forgiveness plan that would have provided relief to 43 million Americans. Biden announced two new programs, in part to provide debt relief before federal student loan repayments resume in October. Harvard Law School even examined the secretary’s authority to …

Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan to Cost $400 Billion, Numbers Likely to Fuel Debate Between Dems, GOP
2 years, 3 months ago

Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan to Cost $400 Billion, Numbers Likely to Fuel Debate Between Dems, GOP

News 18  

US President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive part of the country’s massive student debt burden is estimated to cost the government $400 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday. “CBO estimates that the cost of student loans will increase by about an additional $400 billion in present value” as a result of the debt forgiveness, it said. But a White …

Biden announces relief for indebted U.S. university graduates
2 years, 4 months ago

Biden announces relief for indebted U.S. university graduates

The Hindu  

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that most university graduates still trying to pay off student loans will each get $10,000 in relief, addressing a decades-old headache of massive educational debt across the country. "In keeping with my campaign promise, my administration is announcing a plan to give working and middle-class families breathing room," Mr. Biden said in a …

How To Figure Out If You Qualify For Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan [UPDATE]
2 years, 4 months ago

How To Figure Out If You Qualify For Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan [UPDATE]

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING PREVIOUSLY: President Joe Biden’s announcement that the Department of Education would be canceling student loan debt for some borrowers had a lot of people wondering on Wednesday whether they qualified. Biden’s plan targets people who took out federal student loans and currently make less than $125,000 individually, or less than $250,000 for dual-income households. To check if …

White House drops free community college from its spending bill
3 years, 2 months ago

White House drops free community college from its spending bill

NPR  

White House drops free community college from its spending bill Enlarge this image toggle caption Seth Wenig/AP Seth Wenig/AP The Biden administration's program to make community college tuition-free will not become a reality in this round of the president's spending priorities, leaving progressive groups disappointed. Both progressive and moderate Democrats confirmed to NPR that two free years of community college …

Biden plan seeks to expand education, from pre-K to college
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden plan seeks to expand education, from pre-K to college

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As Democrats push ahead with President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan, they’re promising historic investments across the arc of an education — from early childhood to college and beyond — in what advocates describe as the most comprehensive package of its kind in decades. The education provisions in Biden’s “Build Back Better” proposal would serve as a …

Jill Biden Discusses Her Husband's Plan For Free Community College
3 years, 3 months ago

Jill Biden Discusses Her Husband's Plan For Free Community College

NPR  

Jill Biden Discusses Her Husband's Plan For Free Community College SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Jill Biden was on the road yesterday. Mrs. Biden is herself a community college professor, and she was there to talk about her husband's plan to make community college free. SIMON: So Dr. Biden was talking about a plan in Congress to make community college tuition free. …

Remote learning still widespread even after Biden hits goal
3 years, 8 months ago

Remote learning still widespread even after Biden hits goal

Associated Press  

President Joe Biden has met his goal of having most elementary and middle schools open for full, in-person learning in his first 100 days in office, according to new survey data, but the share of students choosing to return has continued to lag far behind. The disparity reflects a trend that has alarmed education officials at all levels: Even when …

A closer look at Biden’s $1.8T for families and education
3 years, 8 months ago

A closer look at Biden’s $1.8T for families and education

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration wants to make a $1.8 trillion down payment on the future of children, families and higher education, saying it would produce lasting benefits for the economy. Families earning 1.5 times their state median income would pay a maximum of 7% of their income for all children under age 5. The credits would cover as …

Biden’s Plan: Raise Taxes On The Rich, Spend It On Education
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden’s Plan: Raise Taxes On The Rich, Spend It On Education

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden will propose spending $1.8 trillion over the next decade to make massive investments in the nation’s education system, and to expand and protect tax credits aimed at the middle class, administration officials said Tuesday night, adding that he would pay for the ambitious agenda with a number of tax hikes aimed at the wealthiest …

Biden to propose free preschool, as speech details emerge
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden to propose free preschool, as speech details emerge

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan being unveiled Wednesday in an address to Congress. The president’s speech and the rollout of the American Families Plan come as Biden is marking his first 100 days …

Biden’s ‘Families Plan’ would tax rich to help schools, childcare, community college and more
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden’s ‘Families Plan’ would tax rich to help schools, childcare, community college and more

LA Times  

President Biden is proposing an ambitious $1.8-trillion, 10-year plan to subsidize American families’ education, child care, health insurance and job leave costs — an investment in workers intended to complement his earlier call for infrastructure spending and much more, to rebuild an economy hobbled by pandemic and economic inequality. The latest package would be paid for in part by turning …

US: Biden to unveil $1.8 trillion family aid plan
3 years, 8 months ago

US: Biden to unveil $1.8 trillion family aid plan

Al Jazeera  

The White House called the proposal to expand educational opportunities and childcare for families a ‘once-in-a-generation’ plan. Marking his first 100 days in office, President Joe Biden is set to use his first joint address to Congress to pitch a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that would fundamentally transform the role government plays in American life. In …

Trump v Biden: Who will win over stressed-out parents?
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump v Biden: Who will win over stressed-out parents?

Al Jazeera  

Faced with working full-time and managing my five-year-old’s online learning, I shelled out $20,000 for a private, outdoor kindergarten. LeanIn co-founders Sheryl Sandberg and Rachel Thomas put it bluntly in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed: “If we had a panic button, we’d be hitting it.” While the COVID-19 crisis destroyed the fragile web so many working families have knit …

Trump vs. Biden: Where they stand on health, economy, more
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump vs. Biden: Where they stand on health, economy, more

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, both promise sweeping progress over the next four years –- via starkly different paths. HEALTH CARE As a candidate for the White House, Trump promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own that would provide “insurance for everybody.” In …

Biden: Science, not politics, should decide school reopening
4 years, 5 months ago

Biden: Science, not politics, should decide school reopening

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a plan to reopen schools in the era of coronavirus, seeking to establish federal safety guidelines that he says will be based on science and not on political pressure for the country to arbitrarily put the pandemic behind it. “They think it’s going to be good for them politically, so they keep the …

Biden-Sanders ‘unity’ recommendations: Six key takeaways
4 years, 6 months ago

Biden-Sanders ‘unity’ recommendations: Six key takeaways

Al Jazeera  

The advisory groups formed by Biden and his former rival are aimed at shoring up the progressive vote. “Unity” task forces formed by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former progressive rival Bernie Sanders, meant to solidify support among the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, have unveiled recommendations for the former vice president’s policy positions. However, the proposals fell short of …

Fact-checking Trump’s threat to cut off education funding if schools don’t reopen
4 years, 6 months ago

Fact-checking Trump’s threat to cut off education funding if schools don’t reopen

CNN  

Washington CNN — As the coronavirus crisis expands, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would “pressure” governors to open schools in time for the beginning of the coming school year. A May 2019 report from the Congressional Research Service on federal grants to state and local governments states “as with all legislation generally, Congress oversees the grant’s implementation to …

A Bold Pitch To Boost School Funding For The Nation's Most Vulnerable Students
4 years, 7 months ago

A Bold Pitch To Boost School Funding For The Nation's Most Vulnerable Students

NPR  

A Bold Pitch To Boost School Funding For The Nation's Most Vulnerable Students School district lines have become engines of inequity in many states. After a nationwide analysis of school funding data, the report found, "the bigger the school district taxing jurisdiction, the more equity was being created," says Rebecca Sibilia, EdBuild's founder and CEO. To understand Sibilia's proposed solution, …

Governor’s budget pushes for aid for schools, college debt
4 years, 11 months ago

Governor’s budget pushes for aid for schools, college debt

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Gov. The plan would create a major new program for college scholarships in Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities, require public schools to provide full-day kindergarten, and pump $1 billion into cleaning up lead, asbestos and other environmental hazards in public school buildings. To do it all, Wolf’s administration is projecting stronger growth in tax collections, overhauling how charter …

Biden plan: Free community college, expanded loan programs
5 years, 3 months ago

Biden plan: Free community college, expanded loan programs

Associated Press  

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants to make community and technical college free and federal college loan programs more generous as he shifts leftward but not as far as his 2020 rivals. The former vice president’s $750 billion higher education plan represents a major expansion of the federal government’s role in educating Americans beyond high school. The party’s education policy …

Biden unveils education policy plan before teachers union
5 years, 7 months ago

Biden unveils education policy plan before teachers union

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled his first major policy proposal on Tuesday before one of the nation’s largest teachers unions. “There’s no debate about what needs to be done, about whether or not a child starting off in kindergarten or first grade is behind the eight ball,” he told more than 200 Houston-area teachers at a town …

Julián Castro makes universal pre-K focus of education plan
5 years, 8 months ago

Julián Castro makes universal pre-K focus of education plan

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Monday unveiled an education plan that joins other 2020 candidates in calling for tuition-free higher education, universal prekindergarten and raising teacher pay. This time, Castro is getting behind education reforms that other candidates have also embraced ahead of the first debates in June that he believes will offer his slow-building campaign …

Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling student loan debt and offering free public college
5 years, 8 months ago

Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling student loan debt and offering free public college

LA Times  

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is unveiling a proposal to wipe out student debt for millions of borrowers, making her the only major 2020 presidential candidate to advance such an ambitious plan to relieve the growing burden of higher-education loans on Americans and the economy. To keep students from accumulating more debt in the future, Warren also proposes making two- …

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