Where does the Ed Dept’s CARES rule stand? – Education Dive
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Dive Brief:
- It has been five weeks since the U.S. Department of Education vowed to appeal two June court rulings blocking a widely criticized rule barring international and unauthorized students from federal coronavirus aid.
- But the department has not yet done so. And the rule stands in most states — federal judges ruled California’s community colleges and institutions in Washington are exempt, though the latter cannot give aid to international and unauthorized students.
- Higher education administrators and groups continue to deride the measure as unnecessary, moot and limiting.
Dive Insight:
The regulation constrains $6 billion or so from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act earmarked for students as emergency grants. But that funding was released to colleges in April, and most of it has been distributed to students, policy experts say. The department said colleges won’t be punished retroactively if they gave money to students who couldn’t receive it under the rule.
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