Affordability

The Education Department last week shared its plans to conduct a new and unprecedented experiment to allow selected colleges to, essentially, use federal loan dollars to fund private education loans. TICAS, New America, and The Century Foundation share what we know — and, more critically, what we don’t — about this new development.

TICAS statement on House passage of a bipartisan deal to permanently extend funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions and to make long-overdue administrative revisions to improve access to affordable student loan repayment plans and simplify the FAFSA.

TICAS statement on Senate passage of a bipartisan deal to permanently extend funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions and to make long-overdue administrative revisions to improve access to affordable student loan repayment plans and simplify the FAFSA.

Like other proposals before it, the College Affordability Act (CAA) — House Democrats’ comprehensive proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act — makes major progress in improving the federal student loan repayment system. In this blog post, we outline the major components of the new repayment system under the CAA, which is a strong starting point for much-needed...

On October 31, the House Committee on Education and Labor passed the College Affordability Act (CAA), a comprehensive proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.

TICAS statement on committee passage of House College Affordability Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the Higher Education Act that would invest hundreds of billions of dollars to improve college access and affordability for students from all backgrounds.