Student loan payments start up again for most borrowers in October, but more than 800,000 people who have been paying for years are having their loans forgiven.

Federal student loan borrowers will be able to enroll in a new income-driven repayment plan that education officials say could lower their monthly payments.

The Biden administration has filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court defending its plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt.

Millions of people are learning, yes, they’ve been approved for federal student loan forgiveness under the program President Joe Biden is trying to push through. But those emails and the hang-ups in court are causing some confusion.

Millions of people are learning, yes, they’ve been approved for federal student loan forgiveness under the program President Joe Biden is trying to push through. But those emails and the hang-ups in court are causing some confusion.

The Biden administration isn’t accepting applications for federal student loan forgiveness, but they have been sending emails out to people who have been approved for forgiveness.

President Joe Biden’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in federal student loan forgiveness has been blocked by two federal courts.

The federal student loan payment pause is scheduled to end on Dec. 31, 2022, but some experts suspect it will be extended.

The Biden administration is no longer accepting applications for student loan forgiveness after a second federal court shut down the program.

The Biden administration is no longer accepting applications for federal student loan forgiveness after court orders blocked the program.

President Joe Biden is expected to provide an update on the student debt relief portal beta test.

Federal student loan borrowers can now apply for debt relief online.

The U.S. Department of Education launched a beta version of the federal student loan forgiveness application on Friday evening.

The U.S. Department of Education shared a preview of what the student debt relief application form will look like when it goes live this month.

Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are urging the Education Department to strengthen regulations against excluding kids from class because of behaviors related to a disability — a practice known as informal removal.

The U.S. Department of Education has changed its guidance around who qualifies for student debt relief.

The U.S. Department of Education has changed its guidance around who qualifies for student debt relief.

Student loan relief will not be treated as taxable income in Michigan through 2025.

When President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive student loan debt, many borrowers who kept making payments during the pandemic wondered if they’d made the right choice.

The Biden administration says it will cancel any federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Westwood College from 2002 through 2015 after officials found that the school exaggerated the job prospects of graduates.

If you have worked in public service for 10 years or more you might be able to have all your student debt canceled.

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday a new income-driven repayment plan for borrowers, and explained how it changes the current system.

President Joe Biden says many Americans will be able to have up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt forgiven in they make less than $125,000 a year.

The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who say they were defrauded by their colleges.

President Joe Biden hasn't made a decision yet on how he'll handle the student loan debt issue, but his administration is trying to bring closure to one of the most notorious cases of fraud in American higher education.

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The Biden administration says it will cancel more than $70 million in student debt for borrowers who say they were defrauded by the for-profit DeVry University.

Several schools have closed because of threats of violence. Each threat has to be taken seriously, but the closures are having an impact on students.

Officials at historically Black colleges thought they might finally have a pipeline for long-term funding from the federal government after the Biden administration included at least $45 billion for them in its multitrillion dollar economic package.

Lawyers for teachers who don't want New York City schools to impose a vaccine mandate for them and other workers say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

First lady Jill Biden is traveling to Royal Oak on Friday as part of the Return to School Road Trip.

The Biden administration has announced that federal student loan payments will remain suspended through January 2022, extending a pause that was scheduled to expire next month.

Biden also signed a second executive order formally establishing the White House Gender Policy Council, which his transition team had announced before he took office. Any effort to rewrite DeVos’ rules would have to go through a federal rulemaking process that can take years to complete. AdRepublicans slammed Biden’s move and defended DeVos’ rules. The scope of cases that colleges must address is also likely to be expanded again under the Biden administration, he said. Biden is starting the process even as DeVos' policy faces ongoing legal challenges.

New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is shown this still image, from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's media availability, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in New York. (New York City Office of the Mayor via AP)NEW YORK – New York City's Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced Friday he will step down, citing the coronavirus pandemic's personal toll on his family. Porter is set to take over March 15, ready to “hit the ground running and lead New York City schools to a full recovery,” she said. Some elementary school students returned to in-person schooling in December, but upper-grade classrooms have remained closed except for those serving some special-needs students. “From day one, Carranza challenged white supremacy in education and called out the inequity, bias and segregation in New York City schools.

Since coming under federal scrutiny, the 12 schools disclosed a combined $6.5 billion in foreign funding that was previously unreported, the department said. Yale said it failed to submit foreign funding reports for the years 2014 to 2017 but later corrected the omission. It's not unusual for U.S. colleges to accept foreign funding for research projects or exchange programs, but federal reporting requirements have long been treated as an honor system. That began to change last year, however, after a bipartisan report in Congress raised alarms about colleges’ ties with China. In response to that finding, DeVos began ordering broader investigations into universities' foreign funding.

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield, speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the Department of Education July 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON House Democrats are criticizing the White House for blocking the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from testifying at a public hearing on safely reopening the nation's schools. Democrats said they invited CDC officials, including director Robert Redfield, to testify at a hearing next Thursday but were rebuffed by the White House. A committee spokesperson said the panel asked for any CDC official to testify but was rejected. A White House spokesperson said Friday that Dr. Redfield has testified on Capitol Hill at least four times over the last three months.

(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON Despite President Donald Trump's sharp criticism, federal guidelines for reopening schools are not being revised, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Redfield commented a day after Trump complained the reopening guidelines were very tough and expensive and the CDC was asking schools to do very impractical things. Speaking of CDC officials, he tweeted, I will be meeting with them.!!!" On Wednesday, at a White House coronavirus task force briefing, Vice President Mike Pence said new CDC guidelines would be coming out next week. I want to make it very clear that what is not the intent of CDCs guidelines is to be used as a rationale to keep schools closed, he said. In his tweet on Wednesday, Trump did not clarify which of the CDC guidelines he opposed.

SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. Department of Education is attempting to take pandemic relief funds away from K-12 public schools and divert the money to private schools, Michigan and four other Democratic-led states argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Trump administration. Thats how funding is shared with private schools under other federal rules that Congress referenced in the legislation creating the relief aid. It could put some of $1.6 billion allocated for California public schools at risk, he said. Becerra said it is not that private schools are ineligible for relief funds, but he said Congress called for those funds to be distributed on the basis of need. Some of those private schools have already been able to access hundreds of billions of dollars from the CARES ACT Paycheck Protection Program unlike California public schools that cant, he said.

PAW PAW, Mich. – The leader of a school district in southwestern Michigan said he will recommend that the Redskins nickname be dropped. Paw Paw Superintendent Rick Reo said he will take his message to the school board on March 9. “Our nickname is preventing us from realizing our true potential as a school that welcomes, celebrates, supports and challenges all students,” Reo said in a district newsletter. The Paw Paw board voted in 2017 to keep the nickname and mascot. Reo said he believes the district originally chose Redskins to "celebrate the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans."

DETROIT - Here is what you missed on Sunday's episode of Flashpoint:The Department of Education throws a haymaker at Michigan State University. The department fined the university $4.5 million as part of the Lassy Nassar sexual abuse scandal. Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin discussed all of this on SundayAnd after the early budget deals of the Rick Snyder years, the Whitmer era is a throwback. Segment One:Democratic Michigan Congressman Elissa Slotkin. Segment Two:Steve Mitchell, Mitchell Research and Communications; Stephen Henderson, host, Detroit Today; Nolan Finley, editorial page editor, The Detroit News; Jill Alper, Alper Strategies.

DETROIT Here is what you missed on Sunday's episode of Flashpoint:The Department of Education throws a haymaker at Michigan State University. The department fined the university $4.5 million as part of the Lassy Nassar sexual abuse scandal. Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin discussed all of this on SundayAnd after the early budget deals of the Rick Snyder years, the Whitmer era is a throwback. Segment Two:Steve Mitchell, Mitchell Research and Communications; Stephen Henderson, host, Detroit Today; Nolan Finley, editorial page editor, The Detroit News; Jill Alper, Alper Strategies. Segment Three:Flashpoint host Devin Scillian wraps up this week's episode.