The U.S. Department of Education has been given more time to outline its position on a lawsuit challenging Biden-era regulations aimed at rooting out poorly performing career schools.
A federal judge in Texas on Monday approved the department’s request to keep the case on hold for an additional 90 days so it can familiarize itself with the issues in the case. The extension pushes the deadline for the department’s final response from Feb. 14 to May 16.
At the center of the lawsuit are Biden administration’s “gainful employment” rules, which judge career training programs based on how much debt their graduates take on compared to the income that they go on to earn. The rules’ stated goal is to protect students against low-quality programs, said to provide little to no financial benefit and often leaving students burdened with debt, by instead paying for much of the debt with taxpayer dollars….