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Biden Administration Targets Financially Burdened Borrowers In New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

The revised plan focuses on individuals with balances exceeding their original borrowings and students from institutions of questionable quality.

International Business Times

Anganwadi centres get priority in Rajasthan’s 100-day action plan

Anganwadi centres, which take care of children’s nutrition and pre-primary education in rural areas, will receive the highest priority in the 100-day action of the new BJP government’s Education Department in Rajasthan.

The Hindu

Expedite steps for including future skills training programme in curriculum: CM

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy directs Education Department to include future skills training in school curriculum.

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'I began to despise teachers' victim tells abuse probe

Child sex abuse survivors have detailed their experiences at an inquiry into historical abuse at Victorian primary schools.

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Bihar govt. warns newly appointed teachers of strict disciplinary action if they form association

The Bihar government has warned of strict disciplinary action, including cancellation of appointment of newly recruited teachers if they form any ‘association’, or become part of it

The Hindu

Few community college students go on to earn 4-year degrees. Some states have found ways to help

Partnerships between two- and four-year colleges and universities could help more community college students go on to earn bachelor’s degrees, according to data released Thursday by U.S. Education Department

The Independent UK

Education Department punishes student loan servicer for billing mistakes

The department is withholding payment from loan servicer MOHELA as 2.5 million borrowers didn't receive timely billing statements.

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Bihar government removes over 20 lakh students for being absent for three straight days

The government began with the drive for improving the attendance since September 1, 2023.

The Hindu

Karnataka government mulls transferring 26 programmes from Education Department to RDPR

Karnataka govt. plans to transfer 26 programmes from DSEL to RDPR. These include identifying out-of-school children, teacher attendance, guest teachers, midday meals, etc. Govt. aims to decentralise power & make education vibrant from gram panchayat level.

The Hindu

Biden administration cancels loans for former Ashford U. students, with plans to recoup costs

The Biden administration is canceling $72 million in student loans for 2,300 borrowers who say they were cheated by Ashford University, a former for-profit college that was purchased by the University of Arizona in 2020

The Independent UK

Reducing festival holidays for schools triggers row in Bihar; BJP calls move ‘anti-Hindu’

The Bihar Education Department’s move to reduce the festival holidays from 23 to 11 during September-December in government schools citing the Right to Education Act (RTE) has triggered a controversy. Twelve such holidays have been cancelled and the change has been implemented for the remaining days of 2023. ‘’Tomorrow it…

The Hindu

Bihar Education dept orders prefabricated classrooms, guest teachers to overcome shortage in govt schools

PATNA: The Bihar Education Department has ordered government schools facing shortage of classrooms to construct prefabricated classrooms to accommodate students, an official said.

The Times of India

Madras HC sentences Additional Chief Secretary, 2 others to 2 weeks imprisonment in contempt case

The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday sentenced Pradeep Yadav, Additional Chief Secretary, Highways and Minor Ports Department, who was Secretary of School Education Department, to two weeks imprisonment in a contempt of court case. Read further on Dynamite News:

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You could still be eligible for student loan forgiveness under this plan

The Supreme Court may have struck down a sweeping plan for student loan debt forgiveness, but under President Biden's new income-driven repayment plan, SAVE, borrowers stand to pay thousands less.

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Editorial: Biden’s student debt overreach: Supreme Court had no choice but to knock down the loan forgiveness program

On the economic merits, we support President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student loan debt for 26 million Americans. Rejecting more sweeping proposals that would have benefited the already well-off, the president and his Education Department smartly focused the most relief on those in the…

WEKU

What the Supreme Court's rejection of student loan relief means for borrowers

The court has struck down President Biden's plan to discharge federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans. Here are five takeaways for borrowers and the country.

The Hindu

Kasaragod school row: Teacher told to demonstrate Kannada proficiency on Monday

In a twist to the tale of a teacher who only knew Malayalam being appointed to a Kannada-medium school in Kasaragod district of Kerala, she has now been asked to demonstrate her Kannada proficiency in a classroom on Monday in the presence of Education Department officials.

Reason

Biden's Student Loan Plan Could Cost Twice as Much as Projected

Unlike the Education Department's estimates, a CBO analysis considers how the new rules will encourage more students to take out loans they won't be able to pay back.

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Govt. responsible for deterioration of academic standards, alleges UTF leader

United Teachers’ Federation district general secretary J.A.V.R.K. Eswara Rao on Tuesday alleged that the State government was responsible for the deterioration of academic standards as it was forcing teachers to do many non-teaching tasks

ABC News

School attendance in the Northern Territory continues to drop, prompting calls for 'crisis' funding injection

Attendance rates at Northern Territory schools are continuing to fall, with the attendance rate of the most-remote schools slipping below 50 per cent, according to the latest government figures.

ABC News

Ex-student caught up in Tasmanian cyber hack questions why seven-year-old data held by government

Andrew Connor is among the 145,000 people who may have been compromised by the cyber attack on Tasmanians and he wants government officials to be clear on what information has been leaked — and why they have held on to his details seven years on.

ABC News

Katrina Munting's former principal did not follow all protocols after abuse report, court hears

A former Tasmanian school principal tells the Supreme Court he did not follow all the proper procedures when an allegation of abuse against former student Katrina Munting was reported to him.

ABC News

Kimberley student attendance drops again as 95 per cent of public schools record significant falls

Just one in four students in Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing are regularly attending school, with other communities recording similar falls since 2020.

Reason

Florida Decides To Extend LGBT School Censorship to All Grades After All

This was never about shielding just the youngest kids from sexual topics.

ABC News

Katrina Munting's abusive teacher given option to resign rather than face investigation, Supreme Court hears

A high school teacher who sexually abused one of his students in the late 1990s was given the option to resign, rather than face further investigation, a Tasmanian court hears.

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