Fast Fact: Doing Away With Debt
More than 100,000 academically qualified, low-income high school grads don't go to college each year, with cost as a…
Fast Fact: Unsustainable student debt
"Today, skyrocketing costs price too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt."…
New proposal for redesigning financial aid outlines path to a debt-free college guarantee
WASHINGTON (February 14, 2013) College tuition is skyrocketing, forcing far too many students to take on frightening debt…
Fast Fact: Time is Money
Students starting at four-year public institutions take an average of 5.7 years to earn a bachelor's degree. A year…
Statement from The Education Trust on the House subcommittee markup of appropriations bill for FY 2013
WASHINGTON (July 18, 2012) Earlier today, a House appropriations subcommittee passed a bill that would slash more than…
Fast Fact: Money talks
$12.5 million: The amount for-profit colleges spent on lobbying in 2011, more than double what gun-rights advocates spent the…
Statement from The Education Trust on the interest-rate extension for federally backed student loans
WASHINGTON (June 29, 2012) Today, Congress did the right thing by protecting low interest rates on college loans…
Fast Fact: Imagine a world without Pell
Without Pell Grants, nearly 10 million students could see their college opportunities vanish. As America celebrates 40 years of…
Statement from The Education Trust on the passage of H.R. 4628, the Interest Rate Reduction Act
WASHINGTON (April 27, 2012) On behalf of the millions of hard-working students struggling to pay for college, the…
Statement from The Education Trust on Pell provisions of the FY12 House Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON (December 15, 2011) The news from Capitol Hill today is disappointing. When presented with tough choices in…
Statement of the Education Trust on Pell Provisions of the Budget Act of 2011
WASHINGTON (August 1, 2011) -- Thanks to the work of tens of thousands of advocates and nearly 100 organizations…
Statement from The Education Trust on house action on debt ceiling
WASHINGTON (July 29, 2011) Last night, a handful of radical Republicans made it clear that theyd rather risk…
José Cruz, Vice President of The Education Trust, on the ‘Gainful Employment’ Regulation
WASHINGTON (June 2, 2011) - The Obama administration's new "gainful employment" regulation is a disappointing stumble on America's path…
Unprecedented study on the real cost of college shows low-income students have few choices
College costs are skyrocketing. Yet as the report shows, those rising costs, coupled with shifting aid policies which…
Testimony by Ed Trust Vice President José Cruz to U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Chairman Harkin, Ranking Member Enzi, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you…
America’s most prestigious public universities are decreasing representation of low-income students and spending more institutional aid on students from wealther families
As more low-income and minority students turn to college, many top public universities are turning away from themWASHINGTON (January…
Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities
The nation's 50 flagship universities serve disproportionately fewer low-income and minority students than in the past, according to a…
Promise Abandoned: How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict College Opportunities
(Washington, D.C.) -- A new report released today from the Education Trust sharply criticizes trends in federal, state, and…
The unfinished business of Brown v. Board of Education
(Washington, DC) On the eve of the 49th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision…