Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act
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Specifically, the bill calls for the elimination of three regulations the authors view as problematic. They include the repeal of Department of Education efforts to define gainful employment in a recognized occupation, prescribe specific assessment criteria on states through State Authorization, and the revisions to the conversion of clock hours to credit hours for purposes of determining federal student financial aid eligibility.
The bill is targeted to send a signal to the Department of Education that the GOP intends to focus on these core issues headed into the 2015 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act later this year.
