Department of Education Seeks to Regulate Higher Education

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I received an email from the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) about this issue. To quote them,


So that's someone who is behind the opposition. I think that they are probably right to be alarmed. Federal bureaucracies rarely limit their own power. Once created, the likelihood that they will seek further restrictions and regulations is very high.

And I trust HSLDA. They're a good, Christian organization that has been around long enough to know what's going on.

I don't get it. Are you saying that the DOE doesn't get to define what they mean by "credit hour" for the purpose of determining whether a college meets the guidelines for participating in the Federal financial aid program that they administer?

And I don't understand why a homeschool association or the founder of a college that doesn't participate in the federal financial aid program or accept federal funding cares about the guidelines the Feds use for administering their program.

How can this proposed reg be construed as "regulation of higher education" or relevent in any way to a homeschool association or Patrick Henry College? As I said, I don't get it.