David Halperin
Contributing Writer at Republic Report
Attorney, counselor, advocate, pedestrian.
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3 weeks ago |
republicreport.org | David Halperin
June 6, 2025 U Idaho – U Phoenix Deal is Finally Dead posted at 11:13 am by David Halperin It’s a busy week for me, but I want to acknowledge, since we have focused on it here for more than two years, that the absurd deal for the University of Idaho to purchase the predatory for-profit University of Phoenix is finally dead. That’s good news. A wide range of Idahoans stood up against a really bad idea and stopped it.
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1 month ago |
republicreport.org | David Halperin
Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, billionaire Linda McMahon, has now echoed Trump’s last education secretary, billionaire Betsy DeVos, by claiming that fighting fraud in higher education means going after students, rather than holding accountable the predatory for-profit colleges and wealthy school owners who have repeatedly been caught deceiving students and taxpayers.
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1 month ago |
republicreport.org | David Halperin
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, has declined to schedule a hearing prior to a committee vote, scheduled for Thursday, on President Trump’s nominee to be Under Secretary of Education, Nicholas Kent. Having encountered Kent at dozens of Department of Education public hearings over the years, I know him to be intelligent and friendly.
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1 month ago |
republicreport.org | David Halperin
The Donald J. Trump administration, which claims its DOGE-driven reshaping of the federal government is aimed at cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, quietly cancelled a $37 million fine that the Department of Education, under the Biden administration, imposed in 2023 on Grand Canyon University. The fine was levied after Department investigators documented extensive findings that GCU, which takes billions in taxpayer dollars, systematically deceived students about the costs of their educations.
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1 month ago |
republicreport.org | David Halperin
The Trump Department of Education announced two weeks ago that it planned to go hard at student loan borrowers who have not been repaying, declaring that on May 5 it would resume collections of defaulted loans. It was the previous Trump administration that halted collections, in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
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RT @TICAS_org: With gutted staffing @usedgov and proposals in Congress risking more fraud & abuse in #HigherEd, states must create and enfo…
McMahon, Like DeVos, Declares Students, Not Scam Colleges, To Be the Fraudsters https://t.co/AWw2BvtoRF
RT @onestpress: Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back https://t.co/CqWlgRoy6W