Higher Ed Watch

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will decide any day now whether to enforce the Department of Education's Inspector General's recommendation that student loan giant Nelnet be forced to give up $1.2 billion in improperly claimed taxpayer subsidies. That's a big decision that rests in Spellings' two trusted hands.

Higher Ed Watch has uncovered the Bond Market Association's stealth defense of student loan giant Nelnets grossly inflated taxpayer subsidy claims.

Next up in our series of profiles of key players in the upcoming Congressional session is the man who as much as any other will determine Pell Grant funding, Representative David Obey (D-WI).

Its official: the Democrats have taken control of the Senate and are in command of Congress for the first time in 12 years. Get ready for more reshuffling on Capitol Hillnew Senate leadership means new committee control and new committee chairmanships.