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Education Department punishes student loan servicer for billing mistakes

The department is withholding payment from loan servicer MOHELA as 2.5 million borrowers didn't receive timely billing statements.

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Bihar government removes over 20 lakh students for being absent for three straight days

The government began with the drive for improving the attendance since September 1, 2023.

The Hindu

Karnataka government mulls transferring 26 programmes from Education Department to RDPR

Karnataka govt. plans to transfer 26 programmes from DSEL to RDPR. These include identifying out-of-school children, teacher attendance, guest teachers, midday meals, etc. Govt. aims to decentralise power & make education vibrant from gram panchayat level.

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Biden administration cancels loans for former Ashford U. students, with plans to recoup costs

The Biden administration is canceling $72 million in student loans for 2,300 borrowers who say they were cheated by Ashford University, a former for-profit college that was purchased by the University of Arizona in 2020

The Independent UK

Reducing festival holidays for schools triggers row in Bihar; BJP calls move ‘anti-Hindu’

The Bihar Education Department’s move to reduce the festival holidays from 23 to 11 during September-December in government schools citing the Right to Education Act (RTE) has triggered a controversy. Twelve such holidays have been cancelled and the change has been implemented for the remaining days of 2023. ‘’Tomorrow it…

The Hindu

Bihar Education dept orders prefabricated classrooms, guest teachers to overcome shortage in govt schools

PATNA: The Bihar Education Department has ordered government schools facing shortage of classrooms to construct prefabricated classrooms to accommodate students, an official said.

The Times of India

Madras HC sentences Additional Chief Secretary, 2 others to 2 weeks imprisonment in contempt case

The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday sentenced Pradeep Yadav, Additional Chief Secretary, Highways and Minor Ports Department, who was Secretary of School Education Department, to two weeks imprisonment in a contempt of court case. Read further on Dynamite News:

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You could still be eligible for student loan forgiveness under this plan

The Supreme Court may have struck down a sweeping plan for student loan debt forgiveness, but under President Biden's new income-driven repayment plan, SAVE, borrowers stand to pay thousands less.

WEKU

Editorial: Biden’s student debt overreach: Supreme Court had no choice but to knock down the loan forgiveness program

On the economic merits, we support President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student loan debt for 26 million Americans. Rejecting more sweeping proposals that would have benefited the already well-off, the president and his Education Department smartly focused the most relief on those in the…

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What the Supreme Court's rejection of student loan relief means for borrowers

The court has struck down President Biden's plan to discharge federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans. Here are five takeaways for borrowers and the country.

WEKU

Kasaragod school row: Teacher told to demonstrate Kannada proficiency on Monday

In a twist to the tale of a teacher who only knew Malayalam being appointed to a Kannada-medium school in Kasaragod district of Kerala, she has now been asked to demonstrate her Kannada proficiency in a classroom on Monday in the presence of Education Department officials.

The Hindu

Biden's Student Loan Plan Could Cost Twice as Much as Projected

Unlike the Education Department's estimates, a CBO analysis considers how the new rules will encourage more students to take out loans they won't be able to pay back.

Reason

Govt. responsible for deterioration of academic standards, alleges UTF leader

United Teachers’ Federation district general secretary J.A.V.R.K. Eswara Rao on Tuesday alleged that the State government was responsible for the deterioration of academic standards as it was forcing teachers to do many non-teaching tasks

The Hindu

School attendance in the Northern Territory continues to drop, prompting calls for 'crisis' funding injection

Attendance rates at Northern Territory schools are continuing to fall, with the attendance rate of the most-remote schools slipping below 50 per cent, according to the latest government figures.

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Ex-student caught up in Tasmanian cyber hack questions why seven-year-old data held by government

Andrew Connor is among the 145,000 people who may have been compromised by the cyber attack on Tasmanians and he wants government officials to be clear on what information has been leaked — and why they have held on to his details seven years on.

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Katrina Munting's former principal did not follow all protocols after abuse report, court hears

A former Tasmanian school principal tells the Supreme Court he did not follow all the proper procedures when an allegation of abuse against former student Katrina Munting was reported to him.

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Kimberley student attendance drops again as 95 per cent of public schools record significant falls

Just one in four students in Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing are regularly attending school, with other communities recording similar falls since 2020.

Reason

Florida Decides To Extend LGBT School Censorship to All Grades After All

This was never about shielding just the youngest kids from sexual topics.

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Katrina Munting's abusive teacher given option to resign rather than face investigation, Supreme Court hears

A high school teacher who sexually abused one of his students in the late 1990s was given the option to resign, rather than face further investigation, a Tasmanian court hears.

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Katrina Munting's civil case against former teacher and Tasmanian Education Department over child abuse begins

When she was a student in the 1990s, Katrina Munting was sexually abused by a teacher, who was later jailed for three years. Now, she is suing that former teacher and the government, in a case believed to be the first of its kind in the state.

Fortune

If SCOTUS overturns student loan forgiveness plan, other student debt programs could be on the chopping block

Challenges could come to income-driven repayment plans, which recently underwent changes to make them more affordable for borrowers.

Los Angeles Times

Biden has quietly forgiven billions in student loans despite setbacks for his signature debt plan

WASHINGTON — Sara Diaz was feeling emotional when she checked her email Tuesday. She was among the hundreds of Neiman Marcus employees laid off last month and had just finished a stressful phone call about her health insurance.

Los Angeles Times

What should student loan borrowers do while waiting for Supreme Court forgiveness ruling?

If you have federal student loan debt, you may be waiting anxiously to see whether the Supreme Court will halt the massive loan forgiveness program the Biden administration announced last August.

ABC News

Halls Creek truancy crisis whistleblower Brock Burston prepares to fight Education Department punishment

The long-running saga involving education worker Brock Burston will now go before WA's industrial umpire, in a case which continues to highlight desperately low school attendance rates in the Kimberley town of Halls Creek.

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Where Biden's student loan forgiveness got the most interest

Most congressional districts saw 60-65% of eligible borrowers apply or automatically qualify.

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