To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for accreditation reform, to require institutions of higher education to publish information regarding student success, to provide for fiscal accountability, and to provide for school accountability for student loans.
Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act of 2017
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make postsecondary education courses and programs, such as apprenticeship programs, that provide credits toward a postsecondary certification, credential, or degree eligible for federal student aid funding if the programs and courses are accredited by a state that has an alternative accreditation agreement with the Department of Education.
The bill terminates loan forgiveness for borrowers under the income contingent repayment options for new loans made under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program.
An institution that receives federal student aid funding must pay a default rate fine that is based on the default rate of loans made to its students.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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