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White House communications chief of staff Emma Riley announces she is leaving for Labor Department
White House communications chief of staff announces she is leaving, as Biden’s approval rates plummet – Comes one day after Kamala Harris’ communications director resigns White House communications chief of staff Emma Riley announced Friday she was resigning from her Oval Office gig and is heading to the Labor Department Riley’s departure comes one day after Kamala Harris’ communications director Ashley Etienne announced she is leaving her post in the vice president’s office This week, President Biden’s approval rating dropped to 36 percent in a new poll that said most voters want to see Republicans take control of Congress By Gina Martinez For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:46 EST, 20 November 2021…
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Education Department extends Navient’s federal loan servicing contract through 2023
The Department of Education extended its contract with student loan servicer Navient, according to data obtained on a federal procurement website. Here’s what that means for borrowers. (iStock) Student loan servicer Navient extended its federal contract with the Department of Education through 2023, despite previously announcing on Sept. 28 its intention to exit the federal student loan business. The contract renewal was posted on SAM.gov, a website that hosts data about government contracts. The two-year contract extension comes with a $391 million price tag, according to the renewal document. Navient will be responsible for managing “student aid obligations, including, but not limited to, servicing, specialty programs, and consolidation of outstanding…
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Groups deliver #EDActNow petition to Education Department
Students, sexual assault survivors and their advocates gathered outside the U.S. Department of Education Wednesday and delivered a petition with more than 50,000 signatures calling for an immediate rollback of Trump administration policies governing how colleges handle sexual misconduct on campus. The ED Act Now petition calls on Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights, Suzanne Goldberg to take three actions: to announce proposed changes to the Title IX rule by the end of October, to issue a nonenforcement directive on portions of former education secretary Betsy DeVos’s Title IX rule that narrow the scope of those protected by the law and to allow students to file complaints…
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Department of Education: Florida missed deadline for $2.3B in federal aid
After failing to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for how Florida would use federal funding for its schools, the state will forgo $2.3 billion in COVID-19 relief money. On Monday, the DOE sent a letter informing Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran that he had missed the deadline to submit a plan and obtain American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) money. “The Department released the first two-thirds of each State’s allocation in March and required each State to submit its plan for spending its ARP ESSER funds by June. FDOE did not meet this deadline, nor did it meet the July and August submission timelines…
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