Tuition
School Choice & Charters
Q&A: What Is Driving up Tuition at Private Schools?
A year into his job running the National Association of Independent Schools, John Chubb and EW opinion blogger Peter Gow discuss the rising cost of private school tuition.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Higher Education All Over Again
Marc Tucker reacts to a recently released report, from the Senate HELP Committee, on the troubling realities of for-profit schools.
College & Workforce Readiness
Obama College-Cost Plan Aims to Go Beyond Access
Assuring value for students would be crucial for schools to receiving a greater share of campus-based aid.
Special Education
News in Brief
Suit Challenges Tuition Aid for Students With Disabilities
Arizona's largest teachers' union and the state's school boards association filed suit over a new scholarship program that pays private school tuition for children with disabilities.
Education Funding
News in Brief
Districts Must Pay for Special Ed. Tuition
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has ordered three school districts to obey a law requiring districts to pay for private school tuition for special education students.
College & Workforce Readiness
'Gainful Employment' Rule Proposal Draws Fire
The aim is to weed out postsecondary programs that leave students with big debts, but dim job prospects.
School Choice & Charters
Greater Latitude Allowed in Private School Tuitions for Spec. Ed. Placements
Even when a student has never received special education services from public schools, federal law authorizes the payments, the justices rule.
Federal
States Earn Poor Marks On College
The double whammy of soaring tuition and stagnant wages means too many Americans are seeing college slipping out of their grasp, warns the head of a biennial report card on postsecondary education.
Federal
House Backs Bill to Steady Student-Lending Market
The measure would raise borrowing limits on some federally backed loans so that students wouldn't have to turn to private lenders.
School Choice & Charters
Pressure to Lighten Tuition Burden Factors Into College-Aid Equation
A war of words has erupted over elite colleges’ brimming endowments and how much more institutions should help students pay for their education.
Federal
Higher Education Act Renewal Advances
The bill, which has received overwhelming bipartisan approval from the House education committee, includes provisions aimed at bolstering teacher preparation.
Federal
House Committee Backs Renewal of Higher Education Act
The committee voted unanimously to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the full House.
School Choice & Charters
School Bucks Tide With Tuition Freeze
With the costs of attending many independent schools climbing sky-high, one Boston school has declared a year off from boosting tuition.
School Choice & Charters
High Court Declines to Hear Maine ‘Tuitioning’ Case
The U.S. Supreme Court last week rebuffed an appeal by eight Maine families who contend that their state has wrongly refused to pay their children’s tuition at religious high schools because the state only provides such benefits for certain students enrolled in nonreligious private schools.