The federal Department of Education is cracking down on student loan debt, announcing this week it will resume collecting defaulted federal student loan payments starting May 5. It’ll be the first ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — (KBAK/FOX58) Kern County is leading the state in prosecuting criminal cases under Proposition 36, a voter initiative passed last fall aimed at increasing punishments for ...

But the more such courses that students are required to take, the more likely they are to drop out before they get to credit-bearing classes, said PPIC, a non-partisan research group that studies a ...

That’s sharply down from 62% in PPIC’s April 2020 survey, taken just as the COVID-19 school lockdowns were beginning. Only 50% of all adults gave a positive mark to Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose extended ...

Gavin Newsom and the Legislature are handling public education have fallen sharply since the Covid pandemic, according to an annual survey on K-12 education released Thursday by the Public Policy ...

The PPIC found that about one in four borrowers who did not graduate and about one in five borrowers from private for-profit institutions were in delinquency or default. About 3.9 million ...

That’s sharply down from 62% in PPIC’s April 2020 survey, taken just as the COVID-19 school lockdowns were beginning. Only 50% of all adults gave a positive mark to Gov. Gavin Newsom ...