{"id":26469,"date":"2024-09-11T20:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26469"},"modified":"2024-09-11T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:39:45","slug":"why-not-put-students-and-taxpayers-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26469\/why-not-put-students-and-taxpayers-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Put Students and Taxpayers First?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the United States Supreme Court ruling this past June finally and rightfully overturning<\/a> \u201cChevron Deference,\u201d one might hope that federal agencies and the bureaucrats who populate them in Washington, D.C. would recognize and respect the new limitations on their previous excesses.<\/p>\n

The ruling struck a major blow against administrative state overreach. \u00a0And while the Court\u2019s decision specifically dealt with agencies\u2019 rulemaking process and the ability to interpret statutes however they like, hopefully it and similar previous rulings will start imposing desperately needed guardrails to prevent rouge agency action.<\/p>\n

The Unites States Department of Education (DOE) offers a textbook example of that sort of rogue behavior. \u00a0\u00a0Many cogently contend that the DOE shouldn\u2019t even exist<\/a>, and that federal education dollars should instead go directly to the states, letting them handle education policy at the more effective local level.<\/p>\n

Of course, if we accomplished that, bureaucrats in the DOE ranks wouldn\u2019t be able to use their lofty titles to attack universities of their choosing at whim.<\/p>\n

More specifically, we at CFIF told you a few months ago about an attempted money grab<\/a> by DOE at the University of Arizona.\u00a0\u00a0in that instance, the DOE moved to shift tens of millions of dollars in student debt from thousands of students instead onto the U of A following its acquisition of a for-profit online university. \u00a0That offers just the latest example of the ongoing efforts by federal regulators to target more market-driven education models.<\/p>\n

To date, DOE has failed to provide any clarity or guidance in their scheme to U of A, despite that fact that it could cost Arizona taxpayers millions at a time when Vice President Kamala Harris desperately wants to avoid stirring up opposition among voters in this critical swing state.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the DOE\u2019s malfeasance shouldn\u2019t be surprising. \u00a0It stems from DOE\u2019s stubborn and unfounded aversion toward any market-oriented education outside of bureaucratic control. \u00a0How dare U of A experiment with an innovative form of education delivery, they believe. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s shameful of them, and ultimately damages student populations that the DOE exists to help.<\/p>\n

In that vein, our friends at the Heritage Foundation released a report earlier this year detailing DOE\u2019s two-decade war with for-profit higher education, even in cases where those schools were partners with nonprofit institutions.\u00a0 \u201cRather than singling out the for-profit sector, which is meeting the needs of non-traditional students in particular, the department should hold all sectors to the same standards instead of expressing the anti-market biases,\u201d the Heritage report found.<\/p>\n

Sadly, U of A appears to be just the latest victim of DOE\u2019s perverse witch hunt. \u00a0That triggers the looming question: Who\u2019s next? \u00a0If the DOE can do this to the largest university in such a politically and economically important state like Arizona, what other state universities in less-pivotal swing states might they target next to try to recoup their student loan\u00a0\u201cforgiveness?”<\/p>\n

Hopefully, pressure from the courts, elected officials and the public results in some restoration of sanity at the end of the day, and that DOE decides to put the interests of Arizona students and taxpayers first.<\/p>\n

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After the United States Supreme Court ruling this past June finally and rightfully overturning \u201cChevron Deference,\u201d one might hope that federal agencies and the bureaucrats who populate them in Washington, D.C. would recognize and respect the new limitations on their previous excesses. The ruling struck a major blow against administrative state overreach. \u00a0And while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1065,2170,5260],"class_list":["post-26469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-department-of-education","tag-doe","tag-university-of-arizona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26472,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions\/26472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}