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Quick Summary Federal Student Aid opened the second phase of 2027–28 FAFSA beta testing on August 25, 2026. Students and contributors can now request access before the form becomes publicly available to everyone, which the Department of Education says will happen by October 1. This is not a practice form. A student admitted to the

Quick Summary The U.S. Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague Letter on August 26, 2026, emphasizing duties under FERPA and PPRA. It is guidance and an enforcement notice—not a new federal statute. FERPA generally lets a parent inspect education records directly related to their child and maintained by the school or a party acting

Quick Summary The U.S. Department of Education approved the nation’s second Workforce Pell Grant program on August 19. Eligible students at Ivy Tech Community College may now use Pell Grant funds for its eight-week Clinical Medical Assistant program. The first approval, announced earlier in August, covered an emergency medical technician program at Iowa Central Community

Quick summary A total solar eclipse will cross parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain, and a small corner of northwestern Portugal on August 12, 2026. Many other places—including most of Canada, parts of the northern United States, much of Europe, and northwestern Africa—will see a partial eclipse instead. Some locations will not see the