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The U.S. Department of Education plans this fall to begin a stand-alone round of negotiated rule making on "gainful employment" regulations, which would keep tabs on vocational programs at for-profit colleges and some nonprofit institutions. The department's plan to pursue a new set of regulations, not sure this is quite the right way to say it, since the previous regs aren't really reemerging. maybe "The department's plan to pursue a new set of regulations, given that a federal judge struck down the original version last year, is ..."***Yes. Fixed - PF given that a federal judge struck down the original version last year, is not a surprise. But in an announcement in the Federal Register this week, the Education Department said it planned to hold separate discussions on gainful employment this fall, rather than as part of a broader rule-making session that might also tackle fraud protection or state authorization of distance education.
The federal court ruled that the department had failed to adequately establish justification for the threshold it set for loan repayment rates. (The other standards dealt with debt-to-income ratios.) However, the judge said the department was on firm ground philosophically in its effort to regulate the return on investment of vocational programs. But the Obama administration appears to have chosen to take another run at crafting a new set of rules rather than trying to resuscitate the old ones in court. maybe "to take another run at crafting a new set of rules rather than trying to resuscitate the old ones in the courts."?***Changes made - PF
Gainful employment not sure how you're defining "first emerged," but by almost any measure this date is off. original rule making was in 2009 (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/10/employ), and it was fought out all through 2010. dl***Oops. Fixed with "long" tweak - PF was a long, bruising battle. For-profits and some Republican lawmakers had asked that a new debate over how to regulate vocational programs be folded into the renewal of the Higher Education Act, which is scheduled to expire this year. By pursuing a new round of rule making on gainful employment, the department appears to be continuing to focus primarily on for-profits maybe "By pursuing a new round of rule making over gainful employment, the Education Department appears to be continuing to focus primarily on for-profits,"?***done - pf, in contrast to proposed legislation that would scrutinize employment outcomes of higher education more broadly. The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, the sector's primary trade group, issued a written statement saying it was disappointed by the prospect of a "repeated, faulty and confrontational process" on gainful employment. The department will select members of the committee, which is slated to meet first in September.
