Meet the Groups Fighting Against Limits on Restraining School Kids

Staff / Truthdig Jun 26, 2014 Republicans say it is a matter of states’ rights. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How Exactly Do Colleges Allocate Their Financial Aid? They Won’t Say

Staff / Truthdig Feb 25, 2014 Universities rarely release the specific criteria behind their aid decisions. Could a little-known regulation help open the black box? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

How Profitable Are Students in 2013?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 17, 2013 The Obama administration is set to pull in $51 billion from student loans this year, "a sum greater than the earnings of the nation's most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of the four largest U.S. banks by assets," The Huffington Post reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Student Loan Shuffle

By Marian Wang, ProPublica Apr 24, 2012 Since last fall, one million borrowers have had their federal student loans randomly assigned to new loan-servicing companies, all nonprofits or subsidiaries of nonprofit organizations, thanks to a little-known provision in the 2010 healthcare overhaul. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

More U.S. Schools Moving to 4-Day Week

Staff / Truthdig Aug 24, 2011 In this era of shrinking budgets, an increasing number of American public schools are closing their doors on Fridays. Besides stripping American children of one-fifth of their time available to learn, the shift is forcing working parents to seek expensive childcare while school employees see their pay reduced -- or their jobs eliminated. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Falwell’s School Rolling in Federal Aid

Staff / Truthdig Jul 2, 2011 Given that so many of the religious right's mainstream leaders regularly spurn public assistance programs for allegedly creating government dependency, the fact that the late evangelist Jerry Falwell's Liberty University took $445 million in federal aid last year has been turning quite a few heads in the media. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )