My reflection on DOGE’s wasteful mass firings one year later: “Congress and the courts must hold the Trump Admin accountable for its year-long assault on the Education Department’s workers and must ensure that nothing like DOGE ever happens again.” #EduSky #academicsky apple.news/AA033DseZR4q...

Opinion | Can we admit DOGE was a failure now? | Opinion — Akron Beacon Journal

I was fired from the US Department of Education for cost-cutting efforts. A year later, we don't know of any significant budgetary savings.

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Last summer #RiHE solicited submissions for a special issue featuring National Center for Education Statistic's data. The issue is now complete, with 15 publications reviewed over the past year using a range of data sets from #NCES on a variety of topics. link.springer.com/collections/...

I’ll never forget how a billionaire infiltrated the federal government to fire me and 1,200+ public servants, and I’m glad the destruction of the U.S. Department of Education is being documented. Congress and the courts have to fix this. www.oversight.gov/reports/othe...

Opinion: My students want their education to matter to the people and places they are accountable to.

My students want to go home changed. Cutting Ohio prisoner education a mistake | Opinion

My students want their education to matter to the people and places they are accountable to.

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Important coverage from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social on what’s been happening at the federal agencies that are supposed to be helping student loan borrowers prospect.org/2026/01/16/s...

The Student Loan Report the Trump Administration Didn’t Want Published - The American Prospect

Read the CFPB report the Trump administration cut and scrubbed, which includes information on a higher-education surveillance pricing scheme.

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NEW from me: more on how to support student loan borrowers with disabilities get debt relief! #highered #studentdebt #disabilitysky #disability #edusky

TICAS@ticas-org.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Total and Permanent Disability discharge program provides vital student loan relief, but confusion about eligibility can keep borrowers from getting help. Our new blog explains what medical professionals need to know to help their patients access debt relief: buff.ly/dxpqOmG

My reflections on the illegal destruction of the U.S. Department of Education for @circulatingideas.bsky.social. It’s not too late to fix this! #highered #academicsky

Troy Swanson@troy-a-swanson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I was honored to interview Bradley Dean for the Circulating Ideas podcast. Bradley really did a fantastic job in this interview. @circulatingideas.bsky.social circulatingideas.com/2025/11/24/3...

My comments in @bostonglobe.com on how dismantling of ED affects colleges: “When you haphazardly cut whole teams, and people from other teams quit or are forced to retire, there are going to be problems with everything.” @ditikohli.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/b...

Massive cuts at the Department of Education are causing big problems at Massachusetts colleges - The Boston Globe

Local universities rely on the agency in order to disburse financial aid disbursement, create new programs, or merge with other institutions. Now, they're scrambling.

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Before I was illegally fired from FSA, some of my most challenging student loan borrower complaints involved problems with TPD. It’s critical that ED is staffed sufficiently to run this program and oversee contractors. New from me for TICAS. #highered #studentdebt

TICAS@ticas-org.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Total & Permanent Disability (TPD) program has long helped lift the burden of student debt for individuals with severe disabilities. But changes at the Dept of Ed pose a threat to this program. Our latest brief & blog explain what’s at stake: buff.ly/tSvuPOw

“What I fear most about the chaos of this moment is that the American public will lose faith in education and lose trust in its government.” My full testimony at Senator Hirono’s spotlight hearing on #highered www.youtube.com/live/nbJIKR0...

Killing the American Dream: How Republicans Are Closing The Door on Working & Middle-Class Students

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The group Save U.S. Diplomacy held a rally at the #StateDepartment today to decry Secretary Rubio's planned firings of thousands of experts. "They're ceding strategic power and security interests to China, Russia & Iran while making our government operate more like theirs" said one State employee.

The headline kind of says it all, but you should read the whole piece thehill.com/opinion/educ...

The Department of Education is paying us not to work. We would rather be working.

Since mid-March, the Trump administration has blocked me and hundreds of others from doing any work while we continue to receive full pay and benefits.

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My column today for The Hill clarifies that fired Education Department workers are not complicit in the government’s wasteful spending. We want to get back to work for America’s schools, students, and teachers. #academicsky #HigherEd thehill.com/opinion/educ...

Every Tuesday, I join other fired federal workers at the U.S. Senate office to fight for our agencies and our jobs. Follow us @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social and head to instgram to watch my video about student loans: www.instagram.com/reel/DH_SaU_... #highered #academicsky

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My column on my illegal firing in a hometown Ohio newspaper: “As a check on the executive branch’s overreach, Congress should block the administration’s lawless destruction of the Education Department.” www.cantonrep.com/story/opinio...

I was fired from the Education Department. There will be no winners without it | Opinion

Alliance native Bradley Custer was recently let go from the U.S. Department of Education. He writes about what could happen to education without it.

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Friends: Block this impersonator and follow the real @charlottewest.bsky.social

What states get the biggest benefit from the US Department of Education (@usedgov)

New report from the CFPB student loan ombudsman www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/new...

CFPB Report Details Student Borrower Harms from Servicing Failures and Program Disruptions | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The CFPB released the annual report of the Student Loan Ombudsman, highlighting severe difficulties reported by student borrowers in consumer complaints.

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What a joy to unwrap this volume today from Bloomsbury! Congrats to editor Dr. Erin S. Corbett and all the authors! #prisoneducation #HigherEd order: www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education

Written by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Educatio…

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Student loan servicer MOHELA faces new punishment from Biden administration

The Education Department wants the company to improve its management amid problems with billing and a backlog of repayment plan applications.

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Glad to see this explainer and the policy change. I deal with colleges that withhold transcripts over bills, and they are NOT nice about it.

Eddy Conroy@econroy.bsky.social · 3y ago

The new regs from Department of Ed include a really strong provision limiting transcript withholding. The changes will make it easier for millions of students to prove they they have the credits they have completed. More on why this is such a big deal in the blog www.newamerica.org/education-po...