The U.S. Department of Education on Monday distributed proposals for rewriting the gainful-employment rule, which the Trump administration halted last summer. The department's do-over on the vocational education rule, which applies to for-profit college programs and to nondegree programs at nonprofit colleges, continues with a negotiated rule-making session next week.
The feds' proposal would expand gainful employment to all academic programs that are eligible for federal aid. But, as many observers expected, the regulations would lose their teeth -- low-performing programs would no longer face the possibility of being tagged "failing" and lose federal aid eligibility because of their graduates' debt-to-earning ratio, as was the case under the Obama administration's version of gainful employment.
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