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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Borrowers have until September 30 to move their federal student loans out of default under the Department’s temporary Fresh Start program. This is the last chance to avoid collections and federal benefit withholding, as well as restore eligibility for federal student aid and make progress toward federal loan forgiveness. To sign up (in less than 10 minutes!), go to myeddebt.ed.gov or call the agency’s Default Resolution Group at 1-800-621-3115.
Department of Education announced the appointment of Thomas Flagg as its Chief Information Officer.
Thomas N. Flagg has over two decades of business and information technology knowledge, both from government and the private sector. At the Labor Department, he led a team of about 120 federal and 600 contract staff in building and delivering business applications to the 26 Labor subcomponent mission agencies and the public.
Before joining the Senior Executive Service, he directed information technology for Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. He was also a supervisory IT specialist and technical and management advisor to the director of IT within Labor’s Office of Workers Compensation Programs.
Until joining federal service in June 2013, Thomas held numerous IT-related positions in the private sector, including at Recorded Books (the largest manufacturer of recorded audio), Health Objects (a subsidiary of the institutional pharmacy firm OmniCare), ZonaFinanciera.com (a Latin American financial services firm based in Fairfax, Va.), GTE, and the Intel Corporation.
Flagg was born and raised in the Washington, D.C., area. He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Howard University, and later a master in business administration and master in business management with a focus on information systems management from the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. He’s married and has two children.
The Department’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) office will host a free Federal Financial Aid Virtual Bootcamp on October 23 — geared toward students, parents, school counselors, college access professionals, college and career coaches, and other members of the financial aid community.
This year’s theme was “Raising the Bar: Where Excellence and Opportunity Meet.” Among the notable conference speakers were White House officials, Cabinet members, and members of Congress (President’s remarks, Secretary’s remarks, White House fact sheet on HBCU investments, and Department’s grant announcement on diversifying the educator and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM] workforce).
Federal student loan borrowers can now see their payment counts, updated through this summer, including how many payments they have left until they are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).
The Department announced updated deadlines for institutions to report required information under the Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment rules.
The Department published its inaugural Open Data Plan. The plan not only addresses key components of the OPEN Government Data Act but also meets the requirements of Goal 4 of the agency’s Data Strategy and targets gaps in the agency’s current open data practices, including providing a centralized, searchable index of the thousands of data files; sufficiently describing data files with metadata to include them in the Federal Data Catalog; and establishing a uniform point of contact for handling issues with data made available for public use.
The Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are teaming up to engage students in STEM education during after-school hours. This interagency program aims to reach 1,000 students in over 60 21st Century Community Learning Center sites across 10 states.
The Department’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act state plan requirements and related annual data collections.
The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) announced new National Research and Development Centers focused on improving rural postsecondary education, supporting teacher recruitment and retention, and advancing elementary science.
The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is soliciting nominations through November 1 for a number of open board positions.
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