REPORT: Charting the Course for Redesigning Financial Aid in California

Statement on the House College Affordability Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the Higher Education Act that would invest hundreds of billions of dollars in college access and affordability.

We commend Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature for strengthening protections for students at for-profit schools. The three bills signed by the Governor are important steps to increase oversight, transparency, and protections for students attending for-profit colleges. All three bills passed both the Assembly and Senate with bipartisan support.

In Better Together: How a Reimagined Federal-State Partnership to Fund Public Higher Education Could Help Bring College Within Reach for All, we outline how states and the federal government should work together to increase college affordability, especially for low-income students and underrepresented students of color.

“Congress should reject Chairman Alexander’s piecemeal higher education proposal and instead immediately and separately renew expiring funding for…

New data from the U.S. Department of Education show that 10.1 percent of federal student loan borrowers who entered repayment in 2016 had defaulted on their loans by 2018, a decrease from the prior year’s rate of 10.8 percent.

New data show that the average student debt for college graduates continues to climb but at a slower pace. Nationally, about two in three (65 percent) college seniors who graduated from public and private nonprofit colleges in 2018 had student loan debt. These borrowers owed an average of $29,200, 2 percent higher than the 2017 average.