Cory Turner

1 week ago | mprnews.org | Cory Turner

If you visit the website for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), you'll find a "Wall of Receipts" listing more than 7,000 federal contracts it has terminated. Little detail is provided, besides the "savings" from each cancellation, and it's hard to determine the cost or collateral damage of all these cuts. But for some families, there has been a cost. One of these programs, cancelled on Feb. 10, was called Charting My Path for Future Success.

3 weeks ago | laist.com | Cory Turner

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3 weeks ago | laist.com | Cory Turner

The federal student loan system is a mess right now. "Unprecedented uncertainty," says Beth Akers, a higher education researcher at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute (AEI). "Total disarray," says Michele Zampini with the left-leaning Institute for College Access and Success.

1 month ago | opb.org | Cory Turner

The federal student loan portfolio – which manages about $1.6 trillion in loans for roughly 43 million borrowers – is currently overseen by the Education Department's office of Federal Student Aid (FSA). President Donald Trump continued the unwinding of the U.S. Department of Education on Friday, announcing that the management of the entire federal student loan portfolio and of the department’s “special needs” programs would be moved to other federal agencies effective immediately.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Cory Turner

2 hours agoColumbia University agrees to Trump demands in effort to restore federal fundingThe Trump administration — which canceled $400 million in grants — had ordered the school to implement a mask ban, discipline protesters, reform admissions and more. Columbia University has agreed to a list of demands by the Trump administration in order to start negotiations on restoring $400 …9 hours agoMusk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court electionMADISON, Wis.