Government

Education Department expansion will allow more people to participate in prison education programs while the department prepares for across-the-board Pell Grant access for incarcerated students.

Harvard’s Kennedy School plans to combine admissions and financial aid positions and to lay off those who hold the positions today. Some experts are dubious.

Republican lawmakers aren’t sold on the idea that doubling the maximum Pell Grant would actually help lower-income students better afford college.

Parts of the student loan program are in dire need of reform -- and now is the perfect time to do it, according to witnesses at a Senate subcommittee hearing.

Advocates and lawmakers say allowing student loan payments to resume Oct. 1 could lead to “disaster.”

It’s not unusual for senators to hold up the confirmation of presidential nominees -- but it is unusual when the holdup comes from a member of the president’s own party.

Seven of the appropriations bills approved by the House committee include funding that would go directly to colleges and universities.

Medgar Evers College gets a new infusion of cash, which college leaders expect to have a lasting impact on students and surrounding neighborhoods in Brooklyn that were hard-hit by the pandemic.