
Rebecca Carballo
Education Reporter at POLITICO
Education reporter for @politico Formerly: @nytimes 📰@HoustonChron ⭐️WI native & @MarquetteU alum. Guess which awkward kid in my cover photo is me.
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5 days ago |
politico.com | Rebecca Carballo
Cornell received 75 stop-work orders from DOD, which affected research pertaining to national defense, cybersecurity, and health. | Matt Burkhartt/Getty Images FUNDING CUTS: The Department of Defense is shrinking research funding at various colleges and universities, a move that academics say curtails projects that keep U.S. troops safe.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Rebecca Carballo
One GOP senator said anyone paying more than $100K to go to med school is “making a huge mistake.” But the median cost of attending one is more than double that for the class of 2025. Senate HELP Chair Bill Cassidy said there needs to be more accountability for the high tuition prices writ large that aren't exclusive to medical schools.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.com | Juan Perez Jr. |Rebecca Carballo |Nick Niedzwiadek
The department had also been negotiating a memorandum of understanding with the Treasury Department regarding student loan management, agency chief of staff Rachel Oglesby said in a court declaration filed late Tuesday, but paused that work after a court halted the agency’s effort to conduct a massive reduction-in-force in March.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Juan Perez Jr. |Rebecca Carballo |Nick Niedzwiadek
The Education Department struck agreements to send billions of dollars to the Labor Department to administer a suite of education grants and detail several agency employees to the Treasury Department to help manage collections on federal student loans. Those agency plans, revealed in court documents viewed by POLITICO, are now on hold because of a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the Education Department’s workforce.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.com | Rebecca Carballo |Juan Perez Jr. |Eric He
California’s public schools receive nearly $8 billion annually from the U.S. Education Department. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is feuding with President Donald Trump over troop deployment to LA. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP The Trump administration is considering cutting federal education funds to California, according to people familiar with the administration’s thinking. The discussion comes as Gov.
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